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Empty: A Memoir

by Susan Burton
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Empty: A Memoir
Empty: A Memoir

Brutally honest journey through binge-eating disorder.

If you're drawn to authentic stories of personal challenges and mental health, "Empty" is a memoir that won't disappoint. Susan Burton's unflinching account of her binge-eating disorder provides a deep insight into the complexities of living with such an illness. Her courage in exposing her vulnerability makes this book a powerful and relatable read for anyone interested in the true grit of overcoming personal struggles.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Empty: A Memoir

by Susan Burton
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ISBN: 9780812992847
Authors: Susan Burton
Publisher: Random House
Date of Publication: 2020-06-23
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Memoir, Mental Health, Biography, Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 3.78
(rated by 5423 readers)

Description

An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still. Growing up, Susan Burton had never heard of binge-eating. She just knew she felt her best when she was empty, "like a straw," as she says "something you could blow through." For almost thirty years, Susan Burton has hidden 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 she hadn't escaped unscathed, and in the fallout from her parents' breakup, an inherited fixation on thinness went from "peculiarity to pathology." She 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
 

Brutally honest journey through binge-eating disorder.

If you're drawn to authentic stories of personal challenges and mental health, "Empty" is a memoir that won't disappoint. Susan Burton's unflinching account of her binge-eating disorder provides a deep insight into the complexities of living with such an illness. Her courage in exposing her vulnerability makes this book a powerful and relatable read for anyone interested in the true grit of overcoming personal struggles.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.