Wow! Yeah, the Crutcher I just read was really good, but ... um, not fluffy. I think it has the worst baby death I have heard of so far.
I think my favorite over-the-top Message Book that I remember is Nell's Quilt, which is All About Anorexia and Oppression of Women, in which a girl in 1800s America (I think) decides to protest her forced marriage by not eating. She goes a little wonky in the head and starts embroidering bugs and creepy-crawlies on this quilt she was working on, and then symbolically dyes the entire thing black. All I remember about the book was how it described all the symptoms of anorexia in great and excrutiating detail.
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I think my favorite over-the-top Message Book that I remember is Nell's Quilt, which is All About Anorexia and Oppression of Women, in which a girl in 1800s America (I think) decides to protest her forced marriage by not eating. She goes a little wonky in the head and starts embroidering bugs and creepy-crawlies on this quilt she was working on, and then symbolically dyes the entire thing black. All I remember about the book was how it described all the symptoms of anorexia in great and excrutiating detail.