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Title: Why women would want to read Appetites
Review: Caroline Knapp was an intelligent presence in contemporary nonfiction. Her lyrical self-questioning voice will be missed. What I found myself missing most from Appetites was more of the straightforward personal narrative that appeared in her earlier works. Appetites combines this type of narrative with a more academic look at the causes of and institutions that reinforce anorexia. Knapp, when she is bravely telling her own (not so unique) story, is at her best and the writing is both beautiful and painful. The more general parts of the book could have (and have) been written by any numbers of writers.
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