Witty and compelling
think their mothers' advice is irrelevant to their modern American lives - until their own inner crises reveal how much they've unknowingly inherited of their mothers' pasts
Even before the enormous success of A Game of Thrones
why are Americans stricken with heart disease as much as we were 30 years ago
Surrealism is revealed as a way of life
Wasted Condition:Like New Witty and compellingWhy would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and bulimiauntil a particularly horrifying bout with the disease in college put the romance of wasting away to rest forever. A vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching