Marya Hornbacher is an award-winning journalist and bestselling writer. Her books include the memoirs Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, which has been published in twelve languages, and the New York Times bestseller Madness: A Bipolar Life; the recovery books Sane: Mental Illness, Addiction, and the Twelve Steps, and Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Higher Power; and the novel The Center of Winter. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Northwestern University and lives in Chicago.
"An unsparing, terrifying, razor-edged self-portrait that cuts right into the heart of this most paradoxical of psychological disorders." -- Patricia Chao author of Monkey King"A gritty, unflinching look at eating disorders....written from the raw, disintegrated center of young pain....Hornbacher describes [such phenomena] with a stark candor that captures both their pain and underlying purposes....She is wise beyond her years." -- New York Times Book Review"A scary but tentatively triumphant memoir....Told with grace, sharp humor, and candor." -- San Francisco Chronicle"A scary but tentatively triumphant memoir...[Told] with grace, sharp humor and candor." -- San Francisco Chronicle"A memoir that resonates with unflinching candor and ironic wit, Wasted is a book that can save lives. The courage that prompted it awes me. Yes, this one is not to be missed." -- Dorothy Allison"A scary but tentatively triumphant memoir....[Told] with grace, sharp humor and candor." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Her book will be value not only to fellow sufferers: Any woman who has ever been made gleeful by the diminishing of her physical self will gain from reading this painful and sharp-boned account. " -- Newsday"Hornbacher writes like an artist, shaping her themes without self-pity or self-importance, wondering with intelligence why the dissatisfaction everyone feels with life is so often blamed on the female body." -- Village Voice"Powerful, compelling, intelligent....A memoir that has the tension and movement of a well-paced novel. You simply cannot put Wasted down." -- San Diego Union Tribune"Startlingly frank, breathtakingly emotive." -- Elle"Stunning...A tortured-yet-compelling account of a life spent bingeing, purging, and starving...A primal scream of a story sure to resonate even with those who possess a healthy attitude toward food and weight." -- Glamour"This is a terrifically well-written book, completely devoid of self-pity." -- Entertainment Weekly"An unsparing, terrifying, razor-edged self-portrait that cuts right into the heart of this most paradoxical of psychological disorders." -- Patricia Chao
"An unsparing, terrifying, razor-edged self-portrait that cuts right into the heart of this most paradoxical of psychological disorders." -- Patricia Chao author of Monkey King"A gritty, unflinching look at eating disorders....written from the raw, disintegrated center of young pain....Hornbacher describes [such phenomena] with a stark candor that captures both their pain and underlying purposes....She is wise beyond her years." -- New York Times Book Review"A scary but tentatively triumphant memoir....Told with grace, sharp humor, and candor." -- San Francisco Chronicle"A scary but tentatively triumphant memoir...[Told] with grace, sharp humor and candor." -- San Francisco Chronicle"A memoir that resonates with unflinching candor and ironic wit, Wasted is a book that can save lives. The courage that prompted it awes me. Yes, this one is not to be missed." -- Dorothy Allison"A scary but tentatively triumphant memoir....[Told] with grace, sharp humor and candor." -- San Francisco Chronicle"Her book will be value not only to fellow sufferers: Any woman who has ever been made gleeful by the diminishing of her physical self will gain from reading this painful and sharp-boned account. " -- Newsday"Hornbacher writes like an artist, shaping her themes without self-pity or self-importance, wondering with intelligence why the dissatisfaction everyone feels with life is so often blamed on the female body." -- Village Voice"Powerful, compelling, intelligent....A memoir that has the tension and movement of a well-paced novel. You simply cannot put Wasted down." -- San Diego Union Tribune"Startlingly frank, breathtakingly emotive." -- Elle"Stunning...A tortured-yet-compelling account of a life spent bingeing, purging, and starving...A primal scream of a story sure to resonate even with those who possess a healthy attitude toward food and weight." -- Glamour"This is a terrifically well-written book, completely devoid of self-pity." -- Entertainment Weekly"An unsparing, terrifying, razor-edged self-portrait that cuts right into the heart of this most paradoxical of psychological disorders." -- Patricia Chao
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