Spotlight and Giveaway: A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger

NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!!

A TRICK OF THE LIGHT

by Lois Metzger

Published by Balzer + Bray 

Published: June 18, 2013
208 pages 

(from Goodreads)
Telling a story of a rarely recognized segment of eating disorder sufferers—young men—A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger is a book for fans of the complex characters and emotional truths in Laurie Halse Anderson's Wintergirls and Jay Asher's Thirteen Reasons Why.

Mike Welles had everything under control. But that was before. Now things are rough at home, and they're getting confusing at school. He's losing his sense of direction, and he feels like he's a mess. Then there's a voice in his head. A friend, who's trying to help him get control again. More than that—the voice can guide him to become faster and stronger than he was before, to rid his life of everything that's holding him back. To figure out who he is again. If only Mike will listen.

A Trick of the Light made the ALA's Best Fiction for Young Adults and Bank Street College Best Children's Books of the Year lists and is now available in paperback. Included in this version is an additional section titled "10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Eating Disorders." 

 

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Author Bio
Lois Metzger, author of A Trick of the Light, was born in Queens and has always written for young adults. She is the author of three previous novels and two nonfiction books about the Holocaust, and she has edited five anthologies. Her short stories have appeared in collections all over the world. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, and Harper's Bazaar. She lives in Greenwich Village with her husband and son.

For more information please visit http://www.loismetzger.com, and follow the author on Facebook