#20 The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara ZgheibAnna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears – imperfection, failure, loneliness – she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere eighty-eight pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day.
Short story collection Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others.
At first I wasn't thrilled that it was just inter-related short stories. You'd get to know a character and only catch a peak of them later. Yet, I liked that most of the characters had dealt with significant struggles and managed to find peace afterwards. That was encouraging.
