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. Susan entered into a painful cycle of anorexia and binge eating that formed a subterranean layer to her sunny life. But in the fallout from her parents' breakup, an inherited fixation on thinness went from 'peculiarity to pathology.' She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl.
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. 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. Synopsis: For almost thirty years, Susan Burton hid her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence.
