Lorraine Trovato-Cantori

The author of Kelly's Last Chance took important, relevant ideas that teenage girls confront everyday. In this book the story provides a glimpse into the struggleswithin a teenagers life that many are unaware of. The lessons along the way make the average teen understand that they don't stand alone in their private hell. Parents are sometimes left in the dark with this disease. This disease along with anorexia claims the lives of girls and women that continue to subject themselves to unrealistic body transformations. It is through this chronic behavior that they struggle through a daily battle with the scale and the forces of evil, the food that they should eat to live, but eat to purge. The media, celebrity and overt messages projected by a relentlessly obsessive society that places a lot of energy and emphasis on body type as a means to fitting into society. If one doesn't fit into jeans is it due to her genes or the vicious cycle of America's obsession with beauty.