Emily Troscianko
Description
Recovering from anorexia nervosa is far more interesting than suffering from it, so that’s what this memoir is about.
Em’s recovery finds its feet th
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rough shifting dialogues that give the anorexic perspective a voice but never the entire stage. In the interplay of voices, we watch insights into illness and health and what life is all about get tested and refined and gradually transformed into actions—above all, into lots and lots of eating.
And as Em’s mind and body become what they could never have become without all the pastries and the porridge and the chocolate and the stews, and as the recovery process approaches its ending, the many dialogues give way to something else—to a way of living that doesn’t need them anymore.
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