Fix
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of 2021! A gritty, heart-wrenching novel of disability, pain, belonging, loss, addiction, and friendship.
Everything was fine before. When Eve and Lidia could hide their physical differences inside goofy Burger Hut costumes. When Lidia shook Eve up and Eve made Lidia laugh. When Lidia was there. Everything is different now. Cut open . . . rearranged . . . stapled shut, Eve is left alone to recover in a world of pain and a body she no longer recognizes. Her only companions being a bottle of Roxanol and an infuriating (but cute) neighbor, Eve strikes up a relationship—and makes a pact—with the devil. Sacrificing pieces of a place she doesn't know to return to a place she does. What will she discover when she unravels her past? And is having Lidia back worth the price? In verse and prose, Fix paints a riveting picture of a teen struggling to find herself and move forward with her life in a sea of opioids, regret, grief, and hope.
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After extensive surgery, "pale white" Boston-based scoliosis patient Eve Abbott, 16, is "fixed." With the help of bars, screws, and many staples, the "tilty twist" of her spine is gone. Still experiencing excruciating physical pain and rejected by her white best friend Lidia Banks, "born with a single hand," whose trust she betrayed, Eve turns to self-medication for escape. Her Roxinol pills take her to a surreal place where the telescope in her room offers help—contingent on a piece of Minnesota disappearing each time. Eve knows she is becoming reliant on the medication but isn't sure how else to grapple with the pain of her past and present. Mann (What Every Girl Should Know) employs a mixture of verse and first-person narrative. Eve's physical and emotional experiences resonate, and the supporting cast—Eve's professor mother, too busy to meet her daughter's needs; strong, confident Lidia, who might never forgive Eve; and Thomas Aquinas, the teen's assigned partner for a high-school-wide "buddy system" program, the only one who truly sees Eve and offers "exasperating compassion"—are vividly drawn in this hopeful contemporary novel. Ages 14–up.
