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A Mother And Daughter Fight Anorexia
Berkley
August 2009
On Sale: August 4, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 0425227901
EAN: 9780425227909
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Non-Fiction Memoir
A unique eating-disorder memoir written by a mother and
daughter. Unbeknownst to food critic Sheila Himmel—as she
reviewed exotic cuisines from bistro to brasserie— her
daughter, Lisa, was at home starving herself. Before
Sheila fully grasped what was happening, her fourteen-year-
old with a thirst for life and a palate for the flavors of
Vietnam and Afghanistan was replaced by a weight-obsessed,
antisocial, hundredpound nineteen-year-old. From anorexia
to bulimia and back again—many times—the Himmels feared
for Lisa's life as her disorder took its toll on her
physical and emotional well-being.
Hungry is the first memoir to connect eating disorders
with a food-obsessed culture in a very personal way,
following the stumbles, the heartbreaks, and even the
funny moments as a mother-daughter relationship—and an
entire family—struggles toward healing.
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