Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Through five
lengthy hospital stays, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and all sense of what it means
to be "normal," Marya Hornbacher lovingly embraced her anorexia and bulimia -- until a particularly horrifying
bout with the disease in college put the romance of wasting away to rest forever. A vivid, honest, and emotionally
wrenching memoir, Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to reality's darker side -- and her decision to find
her way back on her own terms.