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| Description | When she arrives at Sea Pines Callie is self-destructive unresponsive and withdrawn. Her parents and doctor have placed her in the "residential treatment facility" after discovering that she cuts herself. Callie refuses to talk to anyone including her psychiatrist. But slowly through compelling first-person narrative the event that traumatized her comes to light. Callie reveals that her brother Ben nearly died from liver failure while in her care. Her mother was unavailable and her father was at a bar. Although their absence is evidence of a deep family dysfunction Callie blames herself for the crisis. When the threat of expulsion from Sea Pines precipitates a cutting incident that frightens her Callie finally begins her healing process. She opens up to the girls around her and surrenders to her therapist the compass she's been using to cut herself. Through Callie's frank and realistic voice first-time novelist Patty McCormick illuminates a subject that is rarely discussed. Her story of Callie's recovery will speak to the more than 1 million people - mainly girls and young women - who engage in acts of self-inflicted violence every year. |
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Review By: Cat @ 19, Mar 2006
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Brilliant
Cut was the first book I read on the topic of SI. It let me know that I'm to the only one out there. The book is well written. I've read it eight times. Wonderful book!
Review By: gabi @ 28, Dec 2005
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Cut
totally awesome book, reader-catching. it shows you that not everyone is comfortable just coming out and sharing their feelings and such. it also shows you that everyone has their own problems to deal with and they may not want your help right away or maybe never...
Review By: jessi @ 17, May 2005
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Realization
this book helped me to realize what it was i was doing a definate read for all SIers
Review By: Laura @ 25, Mar 2005
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Good book, very triggering
I thought that this was a VERY good book! However, for me (an SIer) it was extremely triggering. I would recommend it to someone who wants to see the real world of SI, but not to someone who SIs, especially if they're trying to stop. Overall I thought P. McCormick did a VERY good job illustrating this lifestyle, and hope others found it helpful.
Review By: Becky @ 23, Feb 2005
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Cut
I liked this book, I think for someone new to the SI world, it gives a good illustration, with a happy, if not entirely realistic, ending. If you're in need of in up lifter, this story has a happy ending, and it is not particularly violent, so it doesn’t show the darkest of SI. It's a good book, but the happily ever after bothered me, because, while I don't live in reality, I live in books, these books should be realistic, and I don't know if this book really is.
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