"A remarkable book. To read these powerful and articulate life stories of anorexia is to gain a kind of new understanding into the conflict, disconnection and seductiveness of this potentially lethal disease. The psychology of anorexia is difficult to comprehend, but I felt at the end of reading this book that I had a much better, much more human grasp of what is like to live and struggle with the illness."
—Kay Redfield Jamison, author of An Unquiet Mind
with essays by
Maura Kelly • Ilana Kurshan • Jennifer Egan • Francine du Plessix Gray • John Nolan* • Latria Graham • Louise Glück • Priscilla Becker • Rudy Ruiz • Lisa Halliday • Sarah Haight • Francesca Lia Block • Trisha Gura • Maya Browne • Amanda Fortini • Clara Elliot* • Elizabeth Kadetsky • Joyce Maynard