Hope and Other Luxuries : : a Mother's Life With a Daughter's Anorexia
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
San Francisco, CA : Chronicle Books, [2015]
Year Published: 2015
Description: 557 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781452121567
1452121567
SUBJECTS
Dunkle, Clare B.
Dunkle, Clare B. -- Family.
Anorexia nervosa -- Family relationships.
Mothers -- Biography.
Mothers and daughters.
Anorexia nervosa -- Treatment.