Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where
up is down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak? Why enter into a love
affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia
through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs,
and ultimately, any sense of what it means to be "normal." By the time she is in college,
Hornbacher is in the grip of a bout with anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to
rest the romance of wasting away. In this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she re-created
the experience and illuminated that tangle of personal, family, and cultural causes underlying
eating disorders. Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to the darker side of reality, and
her decision to find her way back--on her own terms.

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