Homesick: A Memoir of Family, Food, and Finding Hope
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
With captivating blue eyes and dark hair, Jenny Lauren looked as though she'd stepped out of one of the ads for which her uncle, Ralph Lauren, is famous. It was not long, however, before she found herself in a world where it was easy to see herself as less than perfect. She was ten years old when she first starved herself. After many years of bingeing, purging, and compulsively exercising, her body fell apart. Her colon herniated and she was forced to undergo surgery. At twenty-four, living in chronic pain, she wrote Homesickas a cautionary tale that she hoped would touch many.
Read more
This unflinching account details her struggle with anorexia and bulimia, yet is also a much larger story that focuses on universal issues: the intricacies of family ties, the pressures of society, the search for selfhood, and ultimately the power of hope. With flashes of wit and a knowing beyond its young writer's years, Homesickis a riveting and emotionally complex story of pain and hard-won recovery that no reader will forget.
Liked Homesick: A Memoir of Family, Food, and Finding Hope? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked Homesick: A Memoir of Family, Food, and Finding Hope. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Starvation Mode Shares memoir, eating disorders, nonfiction
-
Insatiable: A Young Mother's Struggle with Anorexia Shares memoir, eating disorders, nonfiction -
The Weight of It: A Story of Two Sisters Shares memoir, eating disorders, nonfiction -
Kid Rex: The Inspiring True Account of a Life Salvaged from Anorexia, Despair and Dark Days in New York City Shares memoir, eating disorders, nonfiction
