Florence in Ecstasy (Jessie Chaffee)

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!!