Brave Girl Eating

Harriet Brown 2010

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
eating disorders parenting memoir recovery

Our Take

Brown's memoir of her daughter's anorexia treatment is written from the parent's perspective — a different, less narrated kind of terror. The Maudsley method they use is controversial; the love underneath it is not. You watch a mother fight to keep her daughter alive with food.

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