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Resumen del Editor
An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still.
“Her tale of compulsion and healing is candid and powerful.” (People)
Named One of the Best Books of the Year by Marie Claire
For almost 30 years, Susan Burton hid her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence. This is the relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent story of living with both anorexia and binge-eating disorder, moving past her shame, and learning to tell her secret.
When Burton was 13, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents’ abrupt divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl. But in the fallout from her parents’ breakup, an inherited fixation on thinness went from “peculiarity to pathology.”
Susan entered into a painful cycle of anorexia and binge eating that formed a subterranean layer to her sunny life. She went from success to success - she went to Yale, scored a dream job at a magazine right out of college, and married her college boyfriend. But in college the compulsive eating got worse - she’d binge, swear it would be the last time, and then, hours later, do it again - and after she graduated she descended into anorexia, her attempt to "quit food".
Binge eating is more prevalent than anorexia or bulimia, but there is less research and little storytelling to help us understand it. In tart, soulful prose Susan Burton strikes a blow for the importance of this kind of narrative and tells an exhilarating story of longing, compulsion and hard-earned self-revelation.
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When Lena Johnson’s beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the Black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place to live. All Lena has to do is participate in a secret program - and lie to her friends and family about the research being done in Lakewood.
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Fact or Fiction
- De Penda K en 06-09-20
De: Megan Giddings
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Surfside Sisters
- A Novel
- De: Nancy Thayer
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
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A Nantucket woman returns home to find that reunions aren’t always simple, in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author. Keely Green always dreamed of leaving the beautiful shores of Nantucket to become a writer. Now she’s a bestselling novelist living in New York City, attending glamorous cocktail parties, mingling with the literary elite, and dating a charming pediatric surgeon. But a moment of clarity strikes when Keely’s boyfriend suddenly wants to settle down and her editor rejects her latest novel.
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Too fluffy!
- De LoRe Bolling en 07-10-19
De: Nancy Thayer
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- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
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Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia.
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Eaten from Within
- De Susie en 09-16-15
De: Elena Dunkle, y otros
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Good Girls
- A Study and Story of Anorexia
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- Narrado por: Hadley Freeman
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In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote in her diary: “I just spent three years of my life in mental hospitals. So why am I crazier than I was before????” From the ages of 14 to 17, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa. Her doctors informed her that her body was cannibalizing her muscles and heart for nutrition, but they could tell her little else: why she had it, what it felt like, what recovery looked like. For the next twenty years, Freeman lived as a “functioning anorexic,” grappling with new forms of self-destructive behavior as the anorexia mutated and persisted.
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Has potential, but missed the mark.
- De Ian N. en 02-11-24
De: Hadley Freeman
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Wasted
- A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
- De: Marya Hornbacher
- Narrado por: Marya Hornbacher
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Precociously intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and ambitious, Marya Hornbacher grew up in a comfortable middle-class American home. At the age of 5, she returned home from ballet class one day, put on an enormous sweater, curled up on her bed, and cried because she thought she was fat. By age 9, she was secretly bulimic, throwing up at home after school, while watching Brady Bunch reruns on television and munching Fritos. She added anorexia to her repertoire a few years later and took great pride in her ability to starve. Marya's story gathers intensity with each passing year. By the time she is in college and working for a wire news service in Washington D.C., she is in the grip of a bout of anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. Down to 52 pounds and counting, Marya becomes a battlefield: her powerful death instinct at war with the will to live. Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and slip into a netherworld where up is down, food is greed, and death is honor? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustained both anorexia and bulimia through 5 lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, the loss of family, friends, jobs, and ultimately, any sense of what it means to be "normal." In this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she recreates the experience and illuminates the tangle of personal, family, and cultural causes underlying eating disorders.
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Abridged=Horrible
- De Kelly en 05-05-13
De: Marya Hornbacher
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Unbearable Lightness
- A Story of Loss and Gain
- De: Portia de Rossi
- Narrado por: Portia de Rossi
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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In this searing, unflinchingly honest book, Portia de Rossi captures the complex emotional truth of what it is like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. She recounts the elaborate rituals around eating that came to dominate hours of every day, from keeping her daily calorie intake below 300 to eating precisely measured amounts of food out of specific bowls and only with certain utensils. When this wasn’t enough, she resorted to purging and compulsive physical exercise, driving her body and spirit to the breaking point.
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For All Dieters, not just Anorexic Girls
- De Coghan en 02-20-13
De: Portia de Rossi
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Thin Girls
- A Novel
- De: Diana Clarke
- Narrado por: Jayme Mattler
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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Rose and Lily Winters are twins, as close as the bond implies; they feel each other’s emotions, taste what the other is feeling. Like most young women, they’ve struggled with their bodies and food since childhood, and high school finds them turning to food - or not - to battle the waves of insecurity and the yearning for popularity. But their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive, a yin to yang. When Rose stops eating, Lily starts - consuming everything Rose won’t or can’t.
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nothing special
- De Drine en 10-11-20
De: Diana Clarke
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The Girls at 17 Swann Street
- De: Yara Zgheib
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears - imperfection, failure, loneliness - she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere 88 pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day.
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Wonderful
- De JoelleW en 02-25-19
De: Yara Zgheib
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Elena Vanishing
- A Memoir
- De: Elena Dunkle, Clare B. Dunkle
- Narrado por: Lauren Fortgang
- Duración: 8 h y 59 m
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Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia.
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Eaten from Within
- De Susie en 09-16-15
De: Elena Dunkle, y otros
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Good Girls
- A Study and Story of Anorexia
- De: Hadley Freeman
- Narrado por: Hadley Freeman
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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In 1995, Hadley Freeman wrote in her diary: “I just spent three years of my life in mental hospitals. So why am I crazier than I was before????” From the ages of 14 to 17, Freeman lived in psychiatric wards after developing anorexia nervosa. Her doctors informed her that her body was cannibalizing her muscles and heart for nutrition, but they could tell her little else: why she had it, what it felt like, what recovery looked like. For the next twenty years, Freeman lived as a “functioning anorexic,” grappling with new forms of self-destructive behavior as the anorexia mutated and persisted.
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Has potential, but missed the mark.
- De Ian N. en 02-11-24
De: Hadley Freeman
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Wasted
- A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
- De: Marya Hornbacher
- Narrado por: Marya Hornbacher
- Duración: 5 h y 25 m
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Precociously intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and ambitious, Marya Hornbacher grew up in a comfortable middle-class American home. At the age of 5, she returned home from ballet class one day, put on an enormous sweater, curled up on her bed, and cried because she thought she was fat. By age 9, she was secretly bulimic, throwing up at home after school, while watching Brady Bunch reruns on television and munching Fritos. She added anorexia to her repertoire a few years later and took great pride in her ability to starve. Marya's story gathers intensity with each passing year. By the time she is in college and working for a wire news service in Washington D.C., she is in the grip of a bout of anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. Down to 52 pounds and counting, Marya becomes a battlefield: her powerful death instinct at war with the will to live. Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and slip into a netherworld where up is down, food is greed, and death is honor? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustained both anorexia and bulimia through 5 lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, the loss of family, friends, jobs, and ultimately, any sense of what it means to be "normal." In this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she recreates the experience and illuminates the tangle of personal, family, and cultural causes underlying eating disorders.
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Abridged=Horrible
- De Kelly en 05-05-13
De: Marya Hornbacher
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Unbearable Lightness
- A Story of Loss and Gain
- De: Portia de Rossi
- Narrado por: Portia de Rossi
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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In this searing, unflinchingly honest book, Portia de Rossi captures the complex emotional truth of what it is like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action. She recounts the elaborate rituals around eating that came to dominate hours of every day, from keeping her daily calorie intake below 300 to eating precisely measured amounts of food out of specific bowls and only with certain utensils. When this wasn’t enough, she resorted to purging and compulsive physical exercise, driving her body and spirit to the breaking point.
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For All Dieters, not just Anorexic Girls
- De Coghan en 02-20-13
De: Portia de Rossi
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Thin Girls
- A Novel
- De: Diana Clarke
- Narrado por: Jayme Mattler
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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Rose and Lily Winters are twins, as close as the bond implies; they feel each other’s emotions, taste what the other is feeling. Like most young women, they’ve struggled with their bodies and food since childhood, and high school finds them turning to food - or not - to battle the waves of insecurity and the yearning for popularity. But their connection can be as destructive as it is supportive, a yin to yang. When Rose stops eating, Lily starts - consuming everything Rose won’t or can’t.
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nothing special
- De Drine en 10-11-20
De: Diana Clarke
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The Girls at 17 Swann Street
- De: Yara Zgheib
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears - imperfection, failure, loneliness - she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere 88 pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day.
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Wonderful
- De JoelleW en 02-25-19
De: Yara Zgheib
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Paperweight
- De: Meg Haston
- Narrado por: Mandy Siegfried
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Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. Life in the center is regimented and intrusive, a nightmare come true. Nurses and therapists watch Stevie at mealtime, accompany her to the bathroom, and challenge her to eat the foods she's worked so hard to avoid.
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The Fake Southern Accent? Yeeeeesh!
- De Daryl en 06-30-17
De: Meg Haston
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Why Didn't You Tell Me?
- A Memoir
- De: Carmen Rita Wong
- Narrado por: Carmen Rita Wong
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Carmen Rita Wong has always craved a sense of belonging: First as a toddler in a warm room full of Black and brown Latina women, like her mother, Lupe, cheering her dancing during her childhood in Harlem. And in Chinatown, where her immigrant father, “Papi” Wong, a hustler, would show her and her older brother off in opulent restaurants decorated in red and gold. Then came the almost exclusively white playgrounds of New Hampshire after her mother married her stepfather, Marty, who seemed to be the ideal of the white American dad.
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Why didn’t they tell me this was such a negative listen?
- De laurie en 09-24-22
De: Carmen Rita Wong
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The Weight of Beautiful
- De: Jackie Goldschneider
- Narrado por: Jackie Goldschneider
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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All Jackie Goldschneider ever wanted was to be thin. As a child, she’d stand in front of the mirror, sucking in her stomach and arching her back to feel her ribs, praying to see a model-like figure looking back. As an obese teen, lonely and tormented by her weight, her doctor encouraged her to start dieting, ultimately leading to a prolonged battle with anorexia that nearly took her life. After decades of hiding her eating disorder from friends, family, and the world, Jackie is ready to expose the realities of her devastating struggle.
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Vulnerability
- De Catherine G. en 10-27-24
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The Art of Starving
- De: Sam J. Miller
- Narrado por: Tom Phelan
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Matt hasn't eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, pleading for a meal, but Matt won't give in. The hunger clears his mind, keeps him sharp - and he needs to be as sharp as possible if he's going to find out just how Tariq and his band of high school bullies drove his sister, Maya, away. Matt's hardworking mom keeps the kitchen crammed with food, but Matt can resist the siren call of casseroles and cookies because he has discovered something: the less he eats the more he seems to have...powers.
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Transformative book!
- De Uno Person en 01-01-20
De: Sam J. Miller
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Dying to Be Thin
- The True Story of My Lifelong Battle Against Anorexia
- De: Nikki Grahame
- Narrado por: Yaz Shah
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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"The figure looking back at me was little more than a skeleton with just a thin layer of tissue paper for skin, drawn over the stick-like bones. I stood staring for a good couple of minutes, considering what I'd become. And my verdict? Brilliant, I thought. It's been worth every moment of all that hard work". Say the name Nikki Grahame and most people will remember the bubbly, highly strung and hugely entertaining Big Brother 7 contestant.
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Not What You Might Think
- De ro_runner en 11-07-15
De: Nikki Grahame
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Hungry for Life
- A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind
- De: Rachel Richards
- Narrado por: Rachel Richards
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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In this painfully moving memoir, take a firsthand look at anorexia through the eyes of a young girl. Even in kindergarten, Rachel Richards knows something isn't right. By leading us through her distorted thoughts, she shines a light on the experience and mystery of mental illness. As she grows up, unable to comprehend or communicate her inner trauma, Rachel lashes out, hurting herself, running away from home, and fighting her family. Restricting food gives her the control she craves. But after being hospitalized and force-fed, Rachel only retreats further into herself.
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A Gripping Account of Anorexia and Recovery
- De Nephi Ferguson en 10-12-17
De: Rachel Richards
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Size Zero
- My Life as a Disappearing Model
- De: Victoire Dauxerre
- Narrado por: Emily Lucienne
- Duración: 6 h y 33 m
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memoir of a brief career as a top model - and a brutally honest account of what goes on behind the scenes in a fascinating closed industry. Scouted in the street when she was 17, Victoire Dauxerre's story started like a teenager's dream: within months she was on the catwalks of New York's major fashion shows and part of the most select circle of in-demand supermodels in the world.
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Self-indulgent twaddle
- De Adeliese Baumann en 05-19-17
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Letting Ana Go
- Anonymous Diaries
- De: Anonymous
- Narrado por: Chloe Cannon
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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She was a good girl from a good family, with everything she could want or need. But below the surface, she felt like she could never be good enough. Like she could never live up to the expectations that surrounded her. Like she couldn't do anything to make a change. But there was one thing she could control completely: how much she ate. The less she ate, the better - stronger - she felt. But it's a dangerous game, and there is such a thing as going too far.... Her innermost thoughts and feelings are chronicled in the diary she left behind.
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Love
- De Theodore Lopez en 06-15-21
De: Anonymous
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Wintergirls
- De: Laurie Halse Anderson
- Narrado por: Phoebe Strole
- Duración: 7 h y 38 m
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Lia and Cassie are best friends, wintergirls frozen in fragile bodies, competitors in a deadly contest to see who can be the thinnest. But then Cassie suffers the ultimate loss - her life - and Lia is left behind, haunted by her friend's memory and racked with guilt for not being able to help save her.
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entertaining
- De Mora Barrientos en 11-03-19
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If We Break
- A Memoir of Marriage, Addiction, and Healing
- De: Kathleen Buhle
- Narrado por: Kathleen Buhle
- Duración: 9 h y 46 m
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For decades, Kathleen Buhle chose to play the role of the good wife, beginning when, as a naïve young woman from a working-class family on the South Side of Chicago, she met the dashing son of a senator in Oregon. Within months, Kathleen found herself pregnant and engaged. Determined to build her family on a foundation of love, Kathleen was convinced her and Hunter’s commitment to each other could overcome any obstacle. But when Hunter’s drinking evolved into dependency, she was forced to learn how irrevocably a marriage can fall apart under the merciless power of addiction.
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A true survivors story
- De Kristin en 06-25-22
De: Kathleen Buhle
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Acceptance
- A Memoir
- De: Emi Nietfeld
- Narrado por: Julia Knippen
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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Growing up in a house filled with dirty feather boas and fearless mice, Emi Nietfeld dreams of escaping to the Ivy League. Emi’s single mom believes in her, but can’t stop hoarding—catapulting Emi into the underworld of troubled teen treatment, foster care, and homelessness. When her shot arrives to trade sleeping in her car for the hallowed halls of an elite college, Emi must decide: How far will she go to market herself as a perfect “overcomer” when her problems are far from over? And what will it cost to maintain that illusion at Harvard and into adulthood?
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A heartbreaking insight to a teen’s view of life in the system
- De Kimberly en 08-15-22
De: Emi Nietfeld
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It Was Me All Along
- A Memoir
- De: Andie Mitchell
- Narrado por: Andie Mitchell
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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All her life, Andie Mitchell had eaten lustily and mindlessly. Food was her babysitter, her best friend, her confidant, and it provided a refuge from her fractured family. But when she stepped on the scale on her 20th birthday and it registered a shocking 268 pounds, she knew she had to change the way she thought about food and herself; that her life was at stake.
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- De AndreaJane en 01-16-15
De: Andie Mitchell
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- isabella
- 07-11-23
Potently relatable and introspective
It’s wonderful to hear the book from Susan’s own voice. Her honesty with herself and her audience is remarkable.
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- Anne Marlowe
- 03-28-24
I Know Her
I wasn't sure what to expect and found her story deeply satisfying. She wasn't alone and yet, she was. She isn't me and yet, she is.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-29-24
A very good book
I appreciate how elaborate this book is. I completely related to Susan’s way of thinking as a child, both related and unrelated to food, and especially in her perspectives of the tiny details. I thoroughly enjoyed listening and couldn’t put it down. I love that she was able to articulate her battles with food and her body once and for all, and I hope it liberated her rather than fed her illness. I find it only slightly triggering but only in the sense that I have an eating disorder, and I’m reading about a woman’s experience with an eating disorder. It did not trigger me in a way where it fed my illness. It did not offer tips or tricks. It did not cause harm. It was simply a very enjoyable book, that I related with. And would recommend it to others who are able and ready to read a book that was about a woman’s battle with eating disorders.
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- na ty
- 09-17-24
Brutally honest
I'm currently in Spain, enjoying my time here as an for a month. I felt the need for something engaging to immerse myself in. At this stage in my life, I'm open and eager to explore ED which has shaped me from age 15 to now, as I'm in my middle years. Everything she shared resonated deeply with me. I'm truly grateful she chose not to focus on the numbers on the scale because that can be triggering; instead, her honesty, intelligence, and vulnerability were incredibly powerful. Bravo to her!
This book helped me tremendously . I don’t know if I’ll ever be out of the woods. I’ll probably have distorted images of myself and peculiar relationships w/ food. I think the bottom line is her memoir gives me hope.
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- GingerKittyFluff
- 07-02-20
Big thanks Susan!
This book blew my mind. I felt guilty being so far into Susan's head. Thank you again Susan, it was a great listen.
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- Angela Dieckman
- 05-02-21
Superbly written and full of self-reflection
4.5/5: This book really surprised me in a good way. It turned out to be so much more thorough and self-reflective than I expected. Memoirs can tend to be just a telling of a story without much insight. Burton offers a lot of insight and I found that fascinating. She is able to walk you through how a somewhat normal adolescent thought takes on a life of its own and slowly morphs into a fixation and then a compulsion. I felt like I was front row to that progression and while it isn't my experience, I understood it. I also resonated a lot with her disordered relationship with food and came to understand elements in my own life and relationship with food better. I read some criticism that the book felt cold and impersonal. I can see how some might experience it that way, but I think I understood that Burton is in the world of journalism so her style in this book was influenced by that I believe and not a reflection on how she related to her own story. I also felt that the criticisms of not enough focus on the now were unfair - she clearly states she sees a therapist and continues to wrestle with her relationship with food. That is the nature of an addiction - it is an ongoing battle. Overall, I found this book to be superbly written, well thought out, and intensely personal but applicable to so many (myself included).
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- Wendy Raffel
- 03-05-21
“I’m glad I have thin grandchildren.”
I’ve been listening to Susan Burton on This American Life for 20 years. She’s always been a standout producer, her writing is top notch, and I find her precise, nuanced style of speech compelling.
I didn’t know she’d written a book until she guest hosted the 2/19/21 episode of This American Life, Secrets — I bought and devoured it immediately.
Empty is a personal history of Burton’s (and also our) complicated and sometimes destructive relationship with food. And it documents the nature and long term consequences of keeping secrets in a way I so relate to. The story has momentum, and is impeccably edited, like her radio pieces.
Empty is an emotional and moving book, yes, but it’s also filled with wry observations and dark humor. I loved it. 10/10.
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- Regina
- 02-21-21
Life Changing
Susan is not only a great writer, she communicates with complete honesty. This book was powerful. I highly recommend it.
I am looking forward to additional books from Susan Burton - an authentic voice during a difficult time. Thank you Susan!
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- Pam BJ
- 09-09-21
I walked a mile in Susan's shoes
There is a saying and a few songs titled Walk a Mile in My Shoes. I have done this! I spent time listening to Susan's tone. I am glad she read her own book! I considered her situation, tried to understand what happened to make Susan's life like it is. Her issues are not isolated to her world. Many of us have issues that could cripple us emotionally and physically. I know that the longer we hold onto these issues without reaching out for help, they become a part of us that cannot easily be loosed or detached. I am not a psychologist, physician or a counselor. I do have empathy and wish that All who read this book will approach with care and see themselves in some part of Susan's journey!!
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-29-22
It’s like she was in my head
Susan beautifully describes the battle that is ED and how it follows you like a dark snake. Thank you for this and your description. I will also continue my journey to healed.
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