num_pages: 339
description: Fifteen-year-old Ivys world is in flux. Her dad has moved out her mother is withdrawn her brother is off at college and her best friend Anna has grown distant. Worst of all Ivys body wont stop expanding. Shes getting taller and curvier with no end in sight. Even her beloved math class offers no clear solution to the imbalanced equation that has become Ivys life.Everything feels off-kilter until a decision to change the way she eats gives her a boost in confidence and reminds Ivy that her life is her own. If she can just limit what she eatsthe way her mother seems toshe can stop herself from growing focus on the upcoming math competition and reclaim control of her life. But when her disordered eating gives way to missed opportunities and a devastating health scare Ivy realizes that she must weigh her mothers issues against her own and discover what it means to be a part ofand apart fromher family.
language: English
title: This Impossible Light
publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers