In her New York Times review of Schutt’s second novel, Maud Casey called All Souls “refreshingly strange,” and I doubt I can do better. They've helped me see EDs as the dangerous illnesses they really are - a totally new type of clarity I'm so excited to finally have. If that resonates with you and you think you're ready to take on that kind of reading, too, I have a list of nine books you might want to consider picking up. I need to remember that wince, and reading helps me to do that - to remember what hurts about an eating disorder, and to remain committed to recovery. I read these books because when a character thinks a negative thought about her body, I wince. I read these books to remind myself why recovery matters. I avoided reading about eating disorders, which freed my mind - it was clarity I needed.īut in the past five years, I've actually returned to books about eating disorders - this time, though, they've stopped being dangerous. So, when I left the hospital, I started devouring novels. What I didn't realize, though, was that constant purging and overexercising was destroying my concentration: I could barely focus on a sentence, let alone a paragraph. (I wasn't the only person like this my therapist had an entire shelf filled with copies of Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia she'd confiscated from patients - the book had that much potential to be inimical.) Before I went to treatment, books were one more avenue by which I could learn - or be inspired to keep practicing - harmful behaviors. Ever since I left in-patient treatment for an anorexia, the way I've read about eating disorders has changed.
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