ENGLISH

Hope and other luxuries : a mother's life with a daughter's anorexia

Book information

Publisher
Chronicle Books
Year
2015
ISBN
1452121567, 978-1-4521-2156-7, 978-1-4521-3697-4
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1094846 bytes)
Pages
557\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00

Description

As heard on NPR's Diane Rehm Show!Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life—two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a satisfying and successful career as a children's book novelist. But it's when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder. Co-published with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is the story—told in brave, beautifully written, and unflinchingly honest prose—of one family's fight against a deadly disease, from an often ignored but important perspective: the mother of the anorexic

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