Good Girls : : a Story and Study of Anorexia

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Call Number: 616.852 Fr, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Biography / Literary / Freeman, Hadley
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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"From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, comes a searing memoir about her experience as an anorexic and her journey to recovery"-- Provided by publisher.
Anorexia is one of the most widely discussed but least understood mental illnesses. In a brilliant narrative that combines personal experience with deep reporting, Freeman delivers an incisive and bracing work that details her experiences with anorexia—the shame, fear, loneliness and rage—and how she overcame it. She interviews doctors to learn how treatment for the illness has changed since she was hospitalized and what new discoveries have been made about the illness, including its connection to autism, OCD, and metabolic rate. She learns why the illness always begins during adolescence and how this reveals the difficulties for girls to come of age. Freeman tracks down the women with whom she was hospitalized and reports on how their recovery has progressed over decades.

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Interesting submitted by karenkay on June 24, 2023, 11:55am This was an interesting read but more story than study.