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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and ultimately, any sense of what it means to be "normal." By the time she is in college, Hornbacher is in the grip of a bout with anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. In this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she re-created the experience and illuminated that tangle of personal, family, and cultural causes underlying eating disorders. Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to the darker side of reality, and her decision to find her way back--on her own terms.

Who reads Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia?

Author

Marya Hornbacher

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060775353

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Medical, Fiction, Young Adult

Rating

3.99 / 5 (181 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14