Hope and other luxuries
Subtitle: a mother's life with a daughter's anorexia
By: Clare B. Dunkle
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 557
ISBN-13: 9781452121567
Subjects: Family; Mothers; Anorexia nervosa; Patients; Treatment; Family relationships; Mothers and daughters; Biography
Description: "Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life--two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a satisfying and successful career as a children's book novelist. But it's when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder. Co-published with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is the story--told in brave, beautifully written, and unflinchingly honest prose--of one family's fight against a deadly disease, from an often ignored but important perspective: the mother of the anorexic"--