Hunger point
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jillian Medoff.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: ReganBooks
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
Subjects: Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.; Eating disorders -- Fiction.; Young women -- Fiction.; Sisters -- Fiction.; Long Island (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Description: Food has always been a pleasure and a curse for 26-year-old Frannie and the women of her family. Raised by a mother obsessed with the ritual of dieting, a woman seemingly more in love with food than with her daughters, Frannie and her younger sister, Shelly, have undergone a lifetime of fat camps and Weight Watchers programs and have experienced the sugar high of consuming a box of Girl Scout cookies, the illicit thrill of midnight binges, and the triumph of fitting into a pair of size 6 jeans.

Frannie's family acts as if this fascination with food is normal, until Shelly takes dieting too seriously and descends into the nightmare of a life-threatening eating disorder.

With devastating insight, Jillian Medoff looks deep into the heart of an American family and emerges with a first novel that is at once heartbreakingly honest, wickedly funny, and wonderfully life-affirming: a warm, witty, and perceptive look at a tough yet tender young woman struggling to understand a younger sister battling anorexia and bulimia, bewildered parents who have grown apart, and her own despair at ever finding the right job, boyfriend, or place of her own.