“As a woman who once knew the grip of a life-controlling eating disorder, I held my breath reading Harriet Brown’s story. As a mother of daughters, I wept for her. Then cheered.”
—Joyce Maynard
Nearly everyone's life is touched in some way by an eating disorder. In this emotionally resonant and compelling memoir, short-listed for the Books for a Better Life Award, journalist and professor Harriet Brown recounts the heartbreaking yet enlightening story of her family’s journey through the nightmare of anorexia, covering an intensive 18-month period of her daughter Kitty’s fight with the illness, an experience that changed all of their lives. She also takes a critical look at traditional approaches to “curing” anorexia and provides an alternative method called the Maudsley approach—focusing on the whole family—that has had far more positive results than current accepted methods. A book for mothers to share with daughters and daughters to share with mothers, a provocative and soulful book club pick, and essential reading for families and professionals touched by anorexia, Brave Girl Eating is a guiding light that offers hope and help for coping with this devastating illness, and wise and heartfelt truths about the powerful love of family.
