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I think the author was an American woman, only child. Memoir of her childhood with a mother with a severe eating disorder and a father trying to do his best for his wife and his child. Contains very graphic descriptions of the mother's deterioration: in a wheelchair towards the end I think; constantly throwing up food in front of her family and in public; descriptions of the family staying in a hotel and hearing other guests talking about the mother in shock because of her appearance and the noises coming from the room; the family on some kind of roadtrip or drive somewhere at one point and having to buy a bowl for the mother to use where the shop assistant asked if it was for mixing things and the father joked 'it's already mixed.'

This book has haunted me for over 20 years and I come up with nothing when I search for it. The only book I have ever read about being a child with a parent with an ED. I recently found ONE similar memoir; This Mean Disease by Daniel Becker, but I don't think this is the book I'm looking for.

There was a short epilogue in which the author of the book I'm looking for described developing her own ED in adulthood but quickly seeking help in order to not become like her mother. She was able to recover before it progressed too far.

The mother died of her ED.

Searching for a book I read probably around 2000 that nobody seems to have heard of. I think the author was an American woman, only child. Memoir of her childhood with a mother with a severe eating disorder and a father trying to do his best for his wife and his child. Contains very graphic descriptions of the mother's deterioration and her behaviours, which I don't think I can go into here.

This book has haunted me for over 20 years and I come up with nothing when I search for it anywhere. The only book I have ever read about being the child of a PARENT with an ED. I recently found ONE similar memoir; This Mean Disease by Daniel Becker, but I don't think this is the book I'm looking for.

There was a short epilogue in which the author of the book I'm looking for described developing her own ED in adulthood but quickly seeking help in order to not become like her mother. She was able to recover before it progressed too far.

I think the author was an American woman, only child. Memoir of her childhood with a mother with a severe eating disorder and a father trying to do his best for his wife and his child. Contains very graphic descriptions of the mother's deterioration: in a wheelchair towards the end I think; constantly throwing up food in front of her family and in public; descriptions of the family staying in a hotel and hearing other guests talking about the mother in shock because of her appearance and the noises coming from the room; the family on some kind of roadtrip or drive somewhere at one point and having to buy a bowl for the mother to use where the shop assistant asked if it was for mixing things and the father joked 'it's already mixed.'

This book has haunted me for over 20 years and I come up with nothing when I search for it. The only book I have ever read about being a child with a parent with an ED. I recently found ONE similar memoir; This Mean Disease by Daniel Becker, but I don't think this is the book I'm looking for.

There was a short epilogue in which the author of the book I'm looking for described developing her own ED in adulthood but quickly seeking help in order to not become like her mother. She was able to recover before it progressed too far.

The mother died of her ED.