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Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Marya Hornbacher | | Publisher: | Harper Perennial | | Release date: | 15 January, 1999 | | List price: | $13.00 |
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| This book was a great eye opener for anyone that ever thought that alternative dieting |
| Wasted : A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia - Marya Hornbacher |
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boring!!!!!!!!! |
Not worth the paper it is printed on--what is there is not helpful to anyone with a problem and not entertaining for
others.
I would not recommend this book to anyone. |
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Eye-opening, Marya made me understand her pain |
Unlike some other memoirs and fiction I've read, Marya was able to touch me and make me understand her pain and understand her relapses. I never felt like she was careening out of control, because she was explaining to the reader what her thought process was and why she did what she did. Her narrative voice was amazing.
Marya had a seriously jacked up upbringing. I wonder what her parents think of her portrayal of them in this book. Her mom had food issues and repeatedly told Marya that she "just came like this" and that her parents had no responsibility for her condition. Her parents allowed Marya to convince them that she was okay to go to a boarding school filled with girls with eating disorders, that she could move in with a family friend in another state during high school (where she got dangerously thin), and that she could attend college at 17 (where she ended up weighing 52 pounds and coming veeeeery close to death).
Marya had both bulimia and anorexia. She made some enlightening comments on the differences between the two:
[p. 107] I distinctly did not want to be seen as bulimic. I wanted to be an anoretic. I was on a mission to be another sort of person, a person whose passion were ascestic rather than hedonistic, who would Make It, whose drive and ambition were focused and pure, whose body came second, always, to her mind and her "art."
Marya admits to every embarassing detail in this book. She details the coat of fur she grew when she starved herself near death, the weekend-long binges of food that resulted in her parents pipes bursting from all the vomit, her weird "safe foods" during anorexic periods (try some carrots covered in an entire jar of mustard). She even admits to a lie about sexual abuse that she told during one period of hospitalization in order to deflect attention from herself, from her real issues.
This is an amazing story from a very talented narrator. It could have been edited down for length in some places, but I was so transported by the story that I didn't mind. If you like this book, try A Million Little Pieces by James Frey and Smashed by Koren Zalickas. |
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