Choosing Life
by Julia Tannenbaum
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Pub Date Nov 10 2020 | Archive Date Dec 18 2020
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Description
It’s been one year since Grace Edward’s entire life was flipped upside down. One year of hospital admissions, therapy sessions, broken relationships, and relapses. One year of her adolescence lost to mental illness. Now a senior in high school and actively in recovery, Grace has her sights set on graduation and college. With the support of her loving family and loyal best friend, she’s ready to put her messy past behind her once and for all. But as new challenges arise and her recovery is continually put in jeopardy, she wonders if she’ll ever be truly free of her mental illness. Once again Grace is confronted with the choice between relapse and recovery. And with the clock ticking, she knows it’s ultimately up to her to get better and reclaim the freedom that was stripped away from her when she was sixteen. It’s up to her to choose life.
Advance Praise
"Tannenbaum writes with notable insight, humor, and compassion. Choosing Life never shies away from tough realities but also never loses hope or empathy for its layered and fully realized characters."
- Michelle Wildgen, author of Bread and Butter
Featured Reviews
Amy D, Reviewer
Choosing Life is the third book in the Changing Ways series by Julia Tannenbaum. Although easily read as a standalone, I would like to go back and read the series in order.
We all know teens/adults with eating disorders. Grace's journey is realistic and written with care. A senior in high school, and trying to recover from her eating issues, she still has a long way to go.
I enjoy the varied representation throughout the story, including a non-binary character.
I would definitely recommend Choosing Life to anyone who's looking for a high school character who's struggling with a mental illness, eating disorder or other. On the other hand, if eating disorders are a trigger for you, run fast and far from this book. Grace's issues with food are described and explored in heavy detail.
Words, Images, & Worlds (, Reviewer
I'm sending digital praise and applause to Julia Tannenbaum's work, and highlighting this author's new work, Choosing Life, in this post. Tannenbaum draws on her own experience and crafts a book that is well-written, with appeal for a young adult audience, as well as older readers.
Tannenbaum gives us a main character, Grace, whose journey we can now trace across three books. Grace is written believably through internal dialogue and conversations with other characters. She exemplifies the search for identity that is such a prevalent theme in human experience, and Tannenbaum weaves a story around this theme that is elegantly accomplished.
Choosing Life is yet another beautiful book from an author worth sharing with a wide audience.
Sarah C, Reviewer
This book is one of the most chilling and honest representations of an eating disorder and recovery that I've ever had the pleasure of reading. You can literally FEEL the main character's struggles with weight, food, friendships, and her future as she struggles to balance recovery with her senior year in high school. The characters in this book are so well thought out and well developed. I personally LOVED reading a non-binary character in the story. I loved the friendship between Grace and Lou.
This book was simply amazing. I couldn't put it down!
I will warn though that if you have struggled with eating disorders and you find frank discussions on recovery triggering, this may not be the book for you.
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