have read The Best Little Girl in the World (tolerable) and Life Size (brilliant).
What other novels are out there about eating disorders?
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher is a memoir, and probably my favorite eating disorder related book.
Hunger Point by Jillian Medoff
Second Star to the Right by Deborah Hautzig is more of a YA book, but still a great read.
there are a lot more out there, but these are probably my 3 favorite
ravenous
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More than you can chew by Marnelle Tokio.
It's really good.
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A short piece: http://atdpweb.soe.berkeley.edu/quest/Mind&Body/Carpenter.html
A Hunger So Wide And So Deep by Becky Thompson
The Spark of Life (trilogy) by Dave McEwan
A list of books here:
http://www.questia.com/library/psychology/abnormal-psychology/anorexia.jsp
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Anorexic Amanda and the ham sandwich.
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Wasted by Marya Hornbacher is a memoir, and probably my favorite eating disorder related book.
Hunger Point by Jillian Medoff
Second Star to the Right by Deborah Hautzig is more of a YA book, but still a great read.
there are a lot more out there, but these are probably my 3 favorite
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Just do a search on Amazon.com. There are thousands of wonderful books for you to choose, and their ratings.
Eating disorders, books
http://amazon.com/s/ref=sr_ex_n_1/103-3988570-1867855?ie=UTF8&rs=28&keywords=eating%20disorders&rh=n%3A1000%2Ck%3Aeating%20disorders
Eating disorders, books, teens
http://amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_n_27/103-3988570-1867855?ie=UTF8&rs=1000&keywords=eating%20disorders&rh=n%3A1000%2Ck%3Aeating%20disorders%2Cn%3A28
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Perfect is a good read, not the best mind you, but very realistic.
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Mirrors…I dont remember who the author is but it is one of my favorites. its about the lives of ballet and broadway dancers and their struggles with ed's.
Gaining : the truth about life after eating disorders / Aimee Liu.
When the mirror lies : anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders / by Tamra Orr
How I live now / Meg Rosoff = I enjoyed this one.
A very hungry girl : how I filled up on life–and how you can, too! / Jessica Weiner = from what i remember this was also interesting.
Room to grow : an appetite for life / by Tracey Gold = This was one of the first books i read relating to this subject and i wold defintly recommend it.
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personal experience= recovering anorexic/bulimic
fat chance is a great book
cant remember author sorry
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Cardboard: A woman left for dead
Alone in her tiny hotel room Lucy wonders what she should do? Is she really ill or just homesick? The tour leader must think she’s only homesick. Why else would she have left her behind? But Lucy is not so sure. Reluctantly she decides to fly to an English speaking country. And to her embarrassment is taken off the plane in a wheelchair.
Lucy is admitted to hospital (and with twenty or so minutes to spare) her life saved. However, she remains ‘unwell’. Remains terrified. How did she nearly die? How could this happen? Anxious, she finds herself a ‘patient’. And unwittingly drawn into a dynamic and powerful struggle over the ownership of her identity. Her life story.
Advised to undergo a range of treatments – some harsh, some ineffective, others insightful and intelligent – Lucy slowly realizes that accepting/remaining in the role of ‘patient’ will solve little, that it is up to her to write herself out of the terror. The nightmare her life has become.
So why won’t she eat?
Answering this question is far from simple. Bravely, Lucy allows the reader to ‘see’ her, to understand why eating has become impossible. Life impossible. Revealing herself from different time frames, different perspectives, she enables us to experience what it is like to suffocate in the immediacy of a eating disorder. To look back at a troubled self with empathy and love. And forward to a world of opportunities, older and wiser.
Lucy allows us to make sense of what it means to be ‘ill’. To have what is known as an eating disorder. Likewise we also come to understand that if Lucy’s recovery is to be secure, robust and full-bodied, her distress must be understood.
Her life lived in her own words.
When it was first published Cardboard was recognized as a compelling portrait of anorexia nervosa and one of the first books to understand the role of narrative in the recovery process. Similarly today when much of the focus on eating disorders concerns decoding the genetics and biology of the condition, this novel continues to provide an understanding of the individual’s affective experience and the socio-cultural context in which it occurs.