Mercy, Unbound - Kim Antieau

This was a particularly unusual book. At first, you can’t decide if they author is truly speaking about a girl with an eating disorder or not. Then, as the book progresses, you realize from little hints here and there that Mercy really does struggle with an eating disorder. At the same time, however, you get the impression that the Antieau is trying to put something else across – or trying to point out that Mercy’s problems don’t necessarily reside in the usual eating disorder categories. Nevertheless, an eating disorder is an eating disorder. This intriguing dilemma, then, about whether or not Mercy should really be sent to the eating disorder clinic, draws you throughout the novel; what is the author’s point? What is Mercy’s purpose? The surprising answer is something that is left slightly open-ended in some aspects, allowing the audience to draw its own conclusions, while also making it very obvious how life should really be lived in our modern society. I would recommend it as a short read, where the concepts are complex, but not mind-numbing or exhausting; you can read it and get something out of it, but it is still on the slightly strange and still relatively “light-read” side.

Chelsea Grimmer

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