Graphic Lives: Ava

A Graphic Novel for Young Adults Dealing with an Eating Disorder

af Carol Holliday

Sixteen year-olds Ava and Jade are obsessed with food, calories, and staying thin. Pleased with the many compliments they receive they push themselves into anorexia. Only when Jade is admitted to hospital does Ava return to therapy, where she begins to understand the causes of her anorexic tendencies.