When your life makes an unexpected turn

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.