Title: Stereotyped Crap
Product review: This book was a real disappointment. It perpetuates the simplistic stereotype of anorexics as affluent, high-achieving white girls who lean towards perfectionism to deal with controlling parents and other family stress. (The protagonist in this book even does ballet.) The prototype Levenkron generates is overtypified and uninteresting. To make matters worse, the book is poorly written. Although it benefits from an inherently interesting topic, I can only hope that Levenkron is a better psychiatrist than novelist. The book may be shocking to those unfamiliar with anorexia, but for those who are, it's pretty mundane.
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