Anna, la meno 40

Anna is an anorexic 16-year-old girl who… can’t do it. When she disappears, however, we readers can still hear her and she can still see what her friends do and observe the behaviour of her mother, with whom the relationship was always problematic.
In this way Anna revises her existence and, while considering the point of view of others, allows us readers to compose the puzzle of a life marked by the silent eating disorder and allows her, the protago- nist, to question herself.
The book of Bonalumi is not scary, it does not alienate, indeed. His words are welcoming and praise the awareness of life, without rheto- ric, without sweetening anything, without unnecessary sentimentali- ty. How teens are. How they like it.