Wasted
Marya Hornbacher • 1998
Devastation Rating
eating disorders memoir body illness
Our Take
Hornbacher wrote this at twenty-three, from inside the anorexia and bulimia she had lived since childhood. The memoir was controversial for its clinical specificity — accused of being a how-to. It is not. It is a document of a mind at war with itself, written with the precision that obsession produces.
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