The back-and-forth shuttle between bulimia and anorexia continued until she was twenty years old and fifty-two pounds in skeletal weight-through six hospitalizations and one involuntary commitment, endless therapy, the loss of family and friends, countless tests and diagnoses, miscarriages. When she was fifteen she pledged allegiance to anorexia, taking great pride in her capacity for self-starvation. At the age of five, precociously intelligent and imaginative, Marya returned from a ballet class convinced that she was fat. " I look back on my life, " she writes, " the way one watches a badly scripted action flick, sitting at the edge of the seat, bursting out, 'No, no, don't open that door!'" But open that door she does and we follow her through, into a wonderfully scripted, alarming, all-American story. So begins Marya Hornbacher's heart-wrenching account of her through-the-looking-glass love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death.
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