This Mean Disease: Growing Up in the Shadow of My Mother's Anorexia Nervosa
- ISBN-10
- 0936077506
- ISBN-13
- 9780936077505
- Category
- Anorexia nervosa
- Pages
- 183
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-10-18
- Publisher
- Gurze Books
- Author
- Daniel Becker
Description
The author recalls his mother's struggle with anorexia and her eventual death from the disease, recalling a childhood filled with memories of trips to the hospital, bizarre behavior, and a crippling obsession with food. Original.
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