ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Editor, The Huffington Post
What's on her bookshelf:
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, by Marya Hornbacher
"Every person with a teenage daughter should read this gut-wrenching story about sickness and society's role in creating eating disorders. Hornbacher was just 23 when she wrote it, but there's a sophisticated sense of irony here. Unlike many authors who talk about eating issues, Hornbacher is not sentimental, preachy, or message-driven. She critically observes her self-destructiveness and searches for the reasons behind it. So many symbols of feminine success and beauty are emaciated and unhealthy; Wasted asks a lot of hard questions about why that is."
Arianna Huffington
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