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Solitaire: The Compelling Story of a Young Woman Growing up in America and Her Triumph over Anorexia

Solitaire is the ground-breaking first-hand account of a young girl's passage through anorexia nervosa. Aimee Liu's true account is also a portrait of middle-class adolescence in early 1970s America.

Subject
psychologybiography
Themes
mental health
Setting
USA
Audience
young adult
Length
medium · 228 pages

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