This book is a powerful and emotional debut and the first one I've read from the point of view of a person suffering from anorexia. The author made me love the characters and took me on an emotional roller coaster ride with peeks at Anna's past life before anorexia and then back to the connections in the present. I cried and laughed, got angry and frustrated right along with Anna.
After reading this book, which I truly believe was written with an authentic voice of an anorexic woman, I now have a better and deeper understanding of the physical, emotional, mental, and social consequences of this disease. I know how loved ones can be affected and how they can choose to ignore the problem, leave, stay to help fight, or just get angry with misunderstanding anorexia. Now I know it's not a choice to have the disease, but a choice to want to live or die. Highly recommended.
After reading this book, which I truly believe was written with an authentic voice of an anorexic woman, I now have a better and deeper understanding of the physical, emotional, mental, and social consequences of this disease. I know how loved ones can be affected and how they can choose to ignore the problem, leave, stay to help fight, or just get angry with misunderstanding anorexia. Now I know it's not a choice to have the disease, but a choice to want to live or die. Highly recommended.