Title: I thought it was brilliant
Product review: This is one of my favorite books. Depressing, I know. But Marya Hornbacher has an amazing ability to be honest. And people with eating disorders don't always recognize how they feel, and the people around them tend to not have a clue, so this book really informs the sufferer and the friend, confidante, reader, whoever, how this person is function and why they do what they do. She doesn't necessarily tell you how you feel, if you are a sufferer, but she does unabashedly look at herself and it's a liberating read in that sense. However, she is still very dark at the end of the book, and that does seem deterministic, but really, I think as hard as it is, it's also curative to see someone work so hard to get better. And work so hard even if the steps are so small. It helped realize how I felt and how it's not going to be easy, but life is worth living.
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