Title: Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle With Anorexia
Author: Harriet Brown
Published: 2010
Language: English
ISBN: 9780061725470
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 291
Extension: EPUB
Size: 251 KB
Subjects: General, Psychology, Autobiography, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Biography And Autobiography, Biography, Self-Help, Case studies, Patients, Psychopathology, Family relationships, Specific Groups - Special Needs, Anorexia nervosa, Brown; Harriet - Family, Eating Disorders - General, Eating Disorders, Psychopathology - Eating Disorders
Categories: Awards, Biography, General & Miscellaneous Biography, Medical Figures & Patient Narratives, Family Memoirs - Biography, Patient Narratives, Family Memoirs & Histories, Mental/Psychological Disorder Patients - Biography, 2011 Books for a Better Life Award Winners, Childcare/Parenting->Books for a Better Life Award Winner
"One of the most up to date, relevant, and honest accounts of one family's battle with the life threatening challenges of anorexia. Brown has masterfully woven science, history, and heart throughout this compelling and tender story."
-Lynn S. Grefe, Chief Executive Officer, National Eating Disorders Association
"As a woman who once knew the grip of a life-controlling eating disorder, I held my breath reading Harriet Brown's story. As a mother of daughters, I wept for her. Then cheered."
-Joyce Maynard, author of Labor Day
In Brave Girl Eating, the chronicle of a family's struggle with anorexia nervosa, journalist, professor, and author Harriet Brown recounts in mesmerizing and horrifying detail her daughter Kitty's journey from near-starvation to renewed health. Brave Girl Eating is an intimate, shocking, compelling, and ultimately uplifting look at the ravages of a mental illness that affects more than 18 million Americans.
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