Cut

Fifteen-year-old Callie has no friends, her brother is sick, her connection with her mother is very fragile, and she hasn’t seen her father for weeks—and they have one shared secret. She also has an all-consuming pain that ties her hands and feet. The only thing that can quiet it is a cut—not deep enough to die, but deep enough to stop feeling anything at all. Right now, Callie is in “The Sea and Pine” rehab center, full of other girls with their own “issues.” Callie doesn’t want anything in common with them. She doesn’t want anything in common with anyone. She doesn’t talk. Not at all. She can’t say a word.
But silence won’t last forever… Patricia McCormick wrote a frightening and mesmerizing story, made powerful by its honesty—about overcoming trauma and about the sometimes destructive force that lives in each of us.