{"product_id":"paperweight-9780062335753","title":"Paperweight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis emotionally haunting and beautifully written young adult debut delves into the devastating impact of trauma and loss, in the vein of Laurie Halse Anderson's \u003cem\u003eWintergirls.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLife in the center is regimented and intrusive, a nightmare come true. Nurses and therapists watch Stevie at meal time, accompany her to the bathroom, and challenge her to eat the foods she's worked so hard to avoid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. But what no one knows is that Stevie doesn't plan to stay that long. There are only twenty-seven days until the anniversary of her brother Josh's death--the death \u003cem\u003eshe\u003c\/em\u003e caused. And if Stevie gets her way, there are only twenty-seven days until she, too, will end her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaperweight\u003c\/em\u003e follows seventeen-year-old Stevie's journey as she struggles not only with a life-threatening eating disorder, but with the question of whether she can ever find absolution for the mistakes of her past...and whether she truly deserves to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaston, Meg:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMeg Haston is the author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Rock Braces and Glasses\u003c\/em\u003e and How to \u003cem\u003eRock Best Friends and Frenemies\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida, where she writes and works as a counselor in an independent school. \u003cem\u003ePaperweight\u003c\/em\u003e is her first young adult novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50628794810642,"sku":"9780062335753","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bc504b63-0657-4e75-9a84-6af2bf97cb50.jpg?v=1745860174","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/paperweight-9780062335753","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}