Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Marya Hornbacher

Mar 2009 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and bulimia -- until a particularly horrifying bout with the disease in college put the romance of wasting away to rest forever. A vivid, honest, and emotionally wrenching memoir, Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to reality's darker side -- and her decision to find her way back on her own terms.

Ratings and reviews

An extremely accurate look inside the mind and daily life and struggle of a woman with anorexia. I have read many books on eating disorders as well as autobiographies, and i have also lived it. For me, this one is the best.

Everyone, eating disorder or not, should definitely read this book! It gives a detailed and realistic insight about eating disorders from a young lady's mind. Everything she goes through is incredible and breath taking.

As a teenager I checked this book out of the library multiple times because it was so haunting and such an accurate account of what it's like in the mind of a young person with an eating disorder. It's just so real and raw.

About the author

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.