A bold YA novel about a teen struggling with anorexia.
Just days before her eighteenth birthday, Lila has decided to end her life. The horror of becoming an adult has broken her heart.
Faerie is the fierce yet gently unfolding story of a hyper- imaginative girl who is on a collision course to womanhood. She likens herself to a half-human fairy creature who does not belong in the earthly world; but in the cold light of day Lila is a psychiatric patient at a hospital, where she is being treated for anorexia―her sickness driven by the irrational need to undo nature and thwart time.
Written with candour and heartbreaking lyricism, Faerie is a plaintive love letter to the bold, flawed splendour that is childhood.
Reviews
Faerie is intensely intimate, containing details that will ring resoundingly true for anyone who has ever suffered with an eating disorder. The strange combination of self-hatred that fuels extreme weight loss and pride that comes from the sensation of feeling nothing but hard bone under the skin is achingly true-to-life, but not glorified. —Quill and Quire
Marjara delivers a provocative and traumatic rendering of a young woman's battle with her own body ... There's an authentic feel to the writing; Lila's rage, her lived horror, is palpable. —Vancouver Sun
The author does a good job of portraying anorexia as a serious psychiatric illness, and she convincingly puts readers inside Lila's head without glamourizing the illness. The writing is polished and poetic, and the editing is spot-on. A well-constructed and thoughtful novel on a difficult subject. I read Faerie in a single sitting and was thoroughly entranced. Young adult readers (and adults too) will appreciate it.
—CM Magazine