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Title Empty : a memoir / Susan Burton. Author Burton, Susan, 1973- author. Imprint New York : Random House, [2020]
Location Call No. Note Status Selby Biography BURTON B ON SHELF Call # BURTON B Phys. Desc. 279 pages ; 25 cm Contents Prologue: 1991 -- Diet -- Puberty -- In our family -- Sunday morning -- Going west -- The mind-body problem -- The walk -- Stomachs -- Artifacts -- November 3-5, 1989 -- Winter -- Acting -- Independence -- College tour -- Secrets -- The obsession -- Late teen -- Leaving -- Kasha -- 7M -- Body image -- Child study -- Addiction -- Stomachs 2 -- Spring -- Sophomore slump -- Ritual purification -- The accident -- The end of something -- Epilogue: Telling. Summary "Susan Burton is ready to come clean. Happily married with two children, working at her dream job, she has lived a secret life of compulsive eating and starving for twenty-five years. This is the story not only of loosening the grip of her compulsion but of moving past her shame and learning to tell her secret."-- Provided by publisher. Subject Burton, Susan, 1973- -- Health. Eating disorders -- Patients -- United States -- Biography. Women journalists -- United States -- Biography. Eating disorders in women -- United States. Eating disorders -- Patients -- Family relationships -- United States. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. bisacsh ISBN 9780812992847
