Miranda Silver has pika, an eating disorder that compels her to eat foreign objects (chalk, in Miranda’s case). Miranda -or Miri as she’s called throughout the book- lives with her twin brother, Eliot and her widowed father, Luc. They live together in a “haunted” ancestral home that they have converted into a bed and breakfast. The house, one of the narrators of the...
Mindi & Kallie's Side by Side review of THE BEAUTY by Aliya Whiteley
Mindi's Review:
I really don't want to give away too much of this story. It's unique and somewhat disturbing. I realized that I'm so used to typical gender roles that a number of things that happen in this book made me really uncomfortable. And that's incredibly disappointing to me. Gender, now more than ever, is becoming less of an issue in society, but when you take the typical male and female roles and completely switch them, it's amazing how quickly I became uncomfortable. That tells me that perhaps society...
Sadie Hartmann, Mother Horror Chats with Sarah Read
