Florence in Ecstasy (Jessie Chaffee)
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This is the only book about anorexia I have ever liked. It’s been YEARS (8?!) since I’ve read it, but Chaffee does something spectacular with the setting and with Catholic saints and with the profound compulsion of disordered eating that I have never seen anywhere else. She manages to capture just how addicting anorexia is without romanticizing it, which I think is a pretty phenomenal feat. Nobody knows about this book!!
5 months ago
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@even*cleveland I can't say NO one has heard of it but I only know like one other person who's read it! Chafee wrote it on her Fullbright and it sold so little. I once accidentally impressed a bookstore owner by asking if they had it. Really extremely special book to me, wish more people had read it!
Ha, that's okay! I'm always interested in what people like to read + why.
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