{"id":38743,"date":"2021-01-31T22:29:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T02:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38743"},"modified":"2021-01-31T22:29:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T02:29:26","slug":"review-of-the-edge-of-anything-by-nora-shalaway-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=38743","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Edge of Anything, by Nora Shalaway Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Edge of Anything<\/em><\/p>\n

by Nora Shalaway Carpenter<\/p>\n

Running Press Teens (Hachette), 2020. 362 pages.
\nReview written December 21, 2020, from a book sent by the publisher
\nStarred Review
\n2020 Cybils Finalist<\/a>
\n2020 Sonderbooks Stand-out<\/a>:
\n\t#7 General Teen Fiction<\/p>\n

The Edge of Anything<\/em> is a friendship story, and a powerful one. Len has never really had friends, except her sister, and now she\u2019s avoiding calls from her sister after something terrible happened. She\u2019s finding herself extra sensitive to dirt and germs, and kids at school think she\u2019s a freak.<\/p>\n

But when Sage\u2019s life turns upside-down, Len is the person who sees what she\u2019s going through. Sage faints after a volleyball game, and thinks it was low blood sugar. But it turns out to be something that can keep her from playing sports ever again. Volleyball was her passion and her whole life.<\/p>\n

It turns out that Len is dealing with something that\u2019s also huge, but the reader and Sage don\u2019t find out what that is until well into the book. But we do come to understand why Len is better at understanding what Sage is going through than her other friends.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the skeleton of what happens in this book, but the beauty is in the carrying it out as Len and Sage become friends and figure out how to be good friends to each other, when neither one wants to face what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

This book gives a good look at mental illness as an illness, not something you can shake by being strong.<\/p>\n

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