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Author: Susan Burton

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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.”—PeopleNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIREFor almost thirty 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 thirteen, 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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This is a serviceably written book about the author's eating problems, both with under- and overeating. It flows smoothly and is at times pleasurably granular in its depiction of the writer's formative years. As the pages unspool, however, it gets bogged down in its own attention to detail (how many guys she kisses in high school, how many beers she chugs, how many unpleasant encounters she has with her mother, how many teachers call her brilliant). But the problem is not only a lack of propulsion. The larger problem is the narrator's solipsism regarding her own privilege. Simply put, her bemoaning of the toll it took (and continues to take) on her to keep her grip on that most highly valorized status of contemporary white American womanhood--thinness--is unseemly. This is the kind of book that sounds like it grew out of a "Vogue" essay, of the genre "It really triggers my OCD to run a house in South Hampton AND an apartment in the city!" While I know this sounds dismissive, and her whole point is that she has a bona fide psychiatric disorder, consider what the book leaves out: the depth of her fat phobia, and the ways in which she has reaped the fruits of her successful aspiration to avoid the stigma of fatness. There is ample literature on the impact of lookism and the prevalence of negative stereotypes about fat people in our culture. Imagine a book where the protagonist spent hundreds of pages writing about how intolerably anxious and distraught they felt when they did something that made them appear, say, Jewish, or dark-skinned, and how the quest to avoid this spiraled to the point where it became a pathology that takes over their lives. It is not enough to write, as the author does, that she can't help her aversion to fatness and her bottomless craving for thinness. I disagree, although I can certainly understand and sympathize with the fact as a woman in urban, upper-middle-class white American circles, it is terrifying to contemplate inhabiting what some writers have called the "degraded identity" of fatness, with all of the challenges that go along with it. But it is precisely her inability to acknowledge this central driver of her behavior, this failure of both her own curiosity and, yes, her moral courage, that limits the book's interest and psychological depth. The issue of interest is not her binge-eating or restricting per se. It is the underlying psychology, her cruelty towards herself, her perfectionism, her competitiveness, and her terror of being shamed or humiliated. There is one great moment in the beginning of the book where she gives us a glimpse of the side of her that is so full of rage, in an image of herself torturing her body like she is her own kidnap victim. Sadly, the book fails to live up to the promise of that flash of insight.

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