Brave Girl Eating

A mother recounts her daughter’s battle with anorexia in this “affecting and informative memoir” (Booklist).

In this chronicle of a family’s struggle with anorexia nervosa, journalist and professor Harriet Brown recounts in mesmerizing and horrifying detail her daughter Kitty’s journey from near-starvation to renewed health. Brave Girl Eating is an intimate, shocking, compelling, and ultimately up...