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An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still. Growing up, Susan Burton had never heard of binge-eating. She just knew she felt her best when she was empty, "like a straw", as she says "something you could blow through." For almost thirty years, Susan Burton has hidden her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence. This is the relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent story of living with both anorexia and binge-eating disorder, moving past her shame, and learning to tell her secret. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents' abrupt divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl. But she hadn't escaped unscathed, and in the fallout from her parents' breakup, an inherited fixation on thinness went from "peculiarity to pathology." She entered into a painful cycle of anorexia and binge eating that formed a subterranean layer to

Who reads Empty : a Memoir?

Author

Burton, Susan, 1973- author

Publisher

Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812992847

Category

health

Subjects

Medical, Psychology, Memoir

Rating

4.2 / 5 (649 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14