The Girls at 17 Swann Street

A haunting portrait of a young woman's battle with anorexia, as she struggles to reclaim her life. The Girls at 17 Swann Street , Yara Zgheib's poetic and poignant debut novel, follows Anna Roux, a professional dancer who spirals into anorexia and depression after following the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. Weighing a mere eighty-eight pounds, Anna is forced to seek treatment at 17 Swann Street, a peach-pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live.