Bibliograph

Hope and other luxuries, a mother's life with a daughter's anorexia, Clare B. Dunkle

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Hope and other luxuries, a mother's life with a daughter's anorexia, Clare B. Dunkle

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Hope and other luxuries

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Clare B. Dunkle

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Accelerated Reader AR, UG, 5.2, 30, 174525.

Sub title

a mother's life with a daughter's anorexia

Summary

Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life-two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a satisfying and successful career as a children's book novelist. But it's when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder. Co-published with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is the story-told in brave, beautifully written, and unflinchingly honest prose-of one family's fight against a deadly disease, from an often ignored but important perspective: the mother of the anorexic

Target audience

adult

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