Hope and other luxuries
a mother's life with a daughter's anorexia
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Word Count
139,250 words, Guess
Page Count
557 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-101452121567
- ISBN-139781452121567
- Library of Congress Control Number2014047354
- OCLC Control Number898433497
- Better World Books9781452121567
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27191459M
Classifications
- DDC616.85/2620092
- DDCB
- LCCRC552.A5 D875 2015
and 1 more
- LCCRC552.A5D875 2015
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"--
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