Eating Disorders | Eating Disorders
Jan.13.2013
From New York Times bestselling author of Symptoms of Withdrawal and Moments of Clarity Christopher Kennedy Lawford comes a book that will save lives.
For most of his early life, Christopher Kennedy Lawford battled life-threatening drug and alcohol addictions. Now in recovery for more than 25...
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Dec.11.2012
After her father’s death, twenty-six-year-old Gray Lachmann finds herself compulsively eating. Desperate to stop bingeing, she abandons her life in New York City for a job at a southern weight-loss camp. There, caught among the warring egos of her devious co-counselor, Sheena; the self-...
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Aug.23.2011
“I think a book of letters would be so helpful for everyone, from those completely isolated by e.d. to those individuals less controlled but nonetheless influenced. It would be so therapeutic, in my opinion, to be able to literally read along through the stages of recovery. And personally, it...
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Feb.24.2011
After the release of author Aimee Liu’s memoir Gaining—about her recovery from an eating disorder—she received an outpouring of letters from people similarly struggling with ED, and from others who wanted to share their stories of recovery. Liu was struck by the diversity of voices and the...
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Jan.22.2010
Sophie Hegel is a shy New York lawyer from small-town Florence Arizona, known not for the Renaissance but for housing a large prison. She's just graduated from Yale Law School and landed her first job when, one evening she feels a fist-like ball form at the base of her throat. Diagnosed with the...
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May.22.2009
Meet Maybelline Mary Katherine Mary Ann Chestnut, named for two Miss Americas and her mother Chessy's favorite brand of mascara. Chessy teaches the students in her charm school her Seven Select Rules for Young Ladies, but she won't tell Maybe who her real father is -- or protect her from her latest...
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Jul.16.2008
Starving Hearts reflects the values and pressures of Jewish family life in the 1950s. Its appeal however transcends its ethnic and generational setting. The story paints a vivid picture of the irreparable wounds of verbal abuse and the immense price that children pay when parents use them as...
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Jul.05.2008
This review was accepted last year by Northwest Woman after I did a phone interview with the author, who I discovered from her online blog The Weighting Game on iVillage.com (Now 'Never Say Diet') We kept in touch, and had the most amazing talk about her book, which sold very well.
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Jun.19.2008
A waitress and now a single mother, Renata wants only to give her baby boy, Charlie, a better start. So she packs up her spare life, leaves her boyfriend behind, and heads across the country in search of a new place to begin. She settles in Boston, and her life is suddenly changed by her chance...
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