Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and ultimately, any sense of what it means to be "normal." By the time she is in college, Hornbacher is in the grip of a bout with anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. In this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she re-created the experience and illuminated that tangle of personal, family, and cultural causes underlying eating disorders. "Wasted" is the story of one woman' s travels to the darker side of reality, and her decision to find her way back--on her own terms.

Bought for $0.29 at Philly AIDS Thrift - 710 S 5th St

I left this book and several others inside a bag in Jenkintown's Philly-bound station ticket booth, there is a bookshelf where people are welcome to leave or take a book. It should be there.

I never got the chance to read this book, so I cannot comment on that side of things, but it looked really interesting. I hope whoever picks it up, enjoys fit. Enjoys as far as a you can enjoy a book about anorexia.