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Precociously intelligent, imaginative, energetic and ambitious, Marya Hornbacher grew up in a comfortable middle-class American home. At the age of five, she returned from a ballet class one day, put on an enormous sweater, curled up on her bed and cried — because she thought she was fat. By age nine, she was secretly bulimic, throwing up at home after school while watching The Brady Bunch reruns on television and munching Fritos. She added anorexia to her repertoire a few years later and took great pride in her ability to starve.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 sustained both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, the loss of family, friends, jobs and, ultimately, any sense of what it meant to be 'normal.' In this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she re-creates the experience and illuminates the tangle of personal, family and cultural causes that underlie eating disorders.
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Hornbacher's story gathers intensity with each passing year. By the time she is in college and working for a news service in Washington, DC, she is in the grip of a such a horrifying bout with anorexia that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. Down to 52 pounds and counting, Hornbacher's body becomes a battlefield: the death instinct with the drive to live, mind and body locked in mortal combat.
WASTED is not a traditional memoir by any means. It feels like it got away with the true rawness of a young woman who had reached the end of the road with her disorder, like the editor had the foresight. Marya Hornbacher's Wasted, a memoir of the author's struggles with bulimia and anorexia, was March's choice for the Mad Woman's Book Club which I run on Goodreads. I was quite interested to see firsthand what coping with an eating disorder is like, particularly over such a prolonged period, having never read a book which deals with the issue. Marya Justine Hornbacher (born April 4, 1974) is an American author and freelance journalist. Her book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, is an autobiographical account of her struggle with eating disorders, written when she was twenty-three. This is the book which originally brought attention to. Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist and bestselling writer. Her books include the memoirs Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, which has been published in twelve languages, and the New York Times bestseller Madness: A Bipolar Life; the recovery books Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the Twelve Steps, and Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power; and the novel The Center of. Harper Perennial, February 2006. Trade Paperback Trade Paperback. Hornbacher,Marya Wasted: A Memoir Of Anorexia And Bulimia Edge and corner wear. Light creases to cover. Pages still clean and tight. Orders shipped with tracking number and e-mail confirmation. All Orders Shipped With Tracking And Delivery Confirmation Numbers.
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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. A landmark book from a 23-year-old writer of virtuoso prose, Wasted takes us inside the experience of anorexia and bulimia in a way that no one else has ever done.
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Marya is currently at work on her sixth and seventh books.
We’ve Been Healing All Along is the product of nearly a decade of research and travel to answer the question: How do we approach the global crisis in mental health? In addition to conducting more than 1500 interviews—with psychiatric professionals, neuroscientists, policymakers, and, most importantly, people who live with mental health diagnoses—Marya focuses the widely varied and innovative strategies of people who are finding new ways to live and thrive. The book makes it clear that science, medicine, and society must collaborate to create a future of mental health, healing, and hope.
Marya's seventh book is also in the works. A collection of essays that explores the experience of solitude, this book travels from a hotel in Las Vegas to an isolated highway in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, moves from the art of Georgia O'Keefe to the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, and searches out the meaning, and the importance, of solitude in our lives.