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Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle With Anorexia (2010)

by Harriet Brown(Favorite Author)

3.83 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0062008617 (ISBN13: 9780062008619)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

HarperCollins e-books

review 1: Meh....not great. While I'm completely empathetic for this woman and her family, her writing style and opinionated approach towards science and health care could be dangerous for readers who might look to this book for actual information and guidance. I think she needed to write this book on some level in order to heal, but the way she writes about different psychological theories that she doesn't agree with is both disrespectful and uninformed. I'm happy that refeeding worked in this case, but in other cases, it can be dangerous and even fatal. Rather than giving readers all the information or even providing a brief disclaimer, the author refers to the "experts" with quotations and discredits anything she doesn't like. I really didn't like this book at all, but if it give... mores anyone a glimmer of hope, then it wasn't completely worthless.
review 2: This book is one of the most powerful and haunting things that I have read in a long time. I think that anyone interested in eating disorders or in mental health in general will be able to get a lot out of this book. I did not agree one hundred percent with everything the author said, but that was not a problem for me. In my opinion, this book was not written by a woman who was trying to capitalize on her child's illness; it was written by a mother who desperately wanted to share the story of her daughter in the hopes of encouraging her, of helping her to continue her recovery, and of inspiring others in similar positions to seek and maintain effective treatments. less

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