See www.namealltheanimals.com
This book is the choice for "If all of Rochester (NY) read one book" for 2006. My Great Books group is reading it this month, so I should be ready to release it soon.

Over the course of a three-year period following the loss of her 18-year-old brother Roy in a car accident, Alison relates how she and her parents come to grips with this tragedy and express their grief. Her parent’s devout Catholic faith remains their touchstone, but 15-year-old Alison must struggle with her beliefs as she feels she is being punished for some unknown sin by having her brother taken away. A student at Rochester’s Mercy High School, she finds it hard to express her religious doubts or to reveal her sudden romantic feelings for one of her female schoolmates, with whom she shares a love of poetry and art. Alison must also struggle with anorexia, as almost no one else seems to notice that she is becoming dangerously thin.

I did not expect to like this memoir and read it in one day. I was planning on releasing it, but will put it in my permanent collection for the time being.

I just read two memoirs dealing with death. I thought both of them were good, but this one is excellent.

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