As I was writing in my
last post Taylor has a “perfect life”, but one day she funds out that her
husband has being lying to her and that they have been broke and financially unstable
for almost a year. The book continues narrating in a really relax language that
uses daily expressions like lame, or casual contractions; I believe this makes
it easier for the reader to understand.
We can understand the
feeling of un empowerment that the protagonist feels as she sees her life
falling apart, the way her anxieties come back in the way she eats Oreo cookies
and just sits and cry in the kitchen floor, this kind of scenes are quite common
in the life of a person that suffers from an eating disorder.
She tries her best to
continue with her life but it suddenly hits her “A life that seems as fragile as a sand castle” with this metaphor
we understand that all of the sudden it does not seems as easy as it was in the
beginning when she thought that her perfect life would last forever and did not
contemplate that all her privileges could and would end at some point.
But we tend to hide
what is happening to us and try to deny everything “I’d rather die than let
everyone know we’re struggling financially.” We are most of the time scared of
the opinion of the people next to us and we have this idea that if we want to
be accepted we must fulfill everyone’s expectation.
I am really enjoying
the book and I cannot wait to see how Taylor solves the financial problem and
if she accepts the change.
