Marnelle tokio biography for kids

In her semi-autobiographical novel, Canadian author Marnelle Tokio introduces us to San Diego teen, Marty. Marty not only has a tough home life with an alcoholic mother, but she's also got a boyfriend pressuring her to give up her V-card already.

When she confesses to her boyfriend that she's not actually a virgin, he turns verbally abusive and then quickly dumps her.

Marnelle tokio biography for kids

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Marty calls her father in NYC, explaining all the stress she's under, asks to live with him for awhile. Father-of-the-year answers back, "If it was that bad, you would have called me sooner," and hangs up. Feeling her life spiraling down, Marty gradually falls into the early stages of anorexia as a way to have control over something, anything.

From there, the story fast-forwards two years and we find Marty, once a star athlete on the swim team, is now in an in-patient rehab program for people battling eating disorders. People of all ages are in this program, including, sadly, o