O outro lado do espelho

Synopsis of O outro lado do espelho

Precociously intelligent and ambitious, Marya Hornbacher grew up in a comfortable middle-class home, yet by age nine she was secretly bulimic. Wasted is the story of her travels to the darker side of reality, recreating the experience of anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations and the loss of everything normal in her life. It is a landmark memoir that illuminates the tangle of personal and cultural causes underlying eating disorders.