{"product_id":"book-cq2p","title":"The Girls at 17 Swann Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Narrator Saskia Maarleveld's] \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003etour de force reading perfectly encapsulates Anna’s anxieties, shame, and overwhelming guilt at failing to achieve perfection\" — \u003ci\u003eBooklist,\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e **A \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e Pick for Best New Books**\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eYara Zgheib’s poetic and poignant debut novel is a haunting portrait of a young woman’s struggle with anorexia on an intimate journey to reclaim her life. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, but if she could just lose a little more weight, perhaps she would make the soloists’ list. Perhaps if she were lighter, danced better, tried harder, she would be good enough. Perhaps if she just ran for one more mile, lost just one more pound.\u003c\/i\u003e Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears – imperfection, failure, loneliness – she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day. Every bite causes anxiety. Every flavor induces guilt. And every step Anna takes toward recovery will require strength, endurance, and the support of the girls at 17 Swann Street. \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Girls at 17 Swann Street: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \"A singular celebration of the lifesaving power of community and small gestures.\" — \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"Powerful and poetic...Zgheib's lyrical, dreamlike style...will resonate with fans of Wally Lamb's and Anne Tyler's novels and Augusten Burrough's memoirs.\" — \u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e\"Heartbreaking and beautiful...a brave book, stark in its realism, yet tempered by its lyrical prose.\" — Diane Chamberlain, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49378277785904,"sku":"BDcq2p","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [40]","offer_id":49378277884208,"sku":"40cq2p","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/97431-cq2p-Square.jpg?v=1734935791","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cq2p","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}