Marya Hornbacher





Marya Hornbacher

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Marya Hornbacher published her first book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.), in 1998, when she was twenty-three. What started as a crazy idea suggested by a writer friend became the classic book that has been published in fourteen languages, is taught in universities and writing programs all over the world, and has, according to the thousands of letters Marya has received over the years, changed lives.

Her second book, the acclaimed novel The Center of Winter (HarperCollins, 2005) has been called "masterful," "gorgeous writing," "a stunning acheivement of storytelling," "delicious," and "compulsive reading." Told in three voices, by six-year-old Kate, her mentally ill brother Esau, and their mother C...more


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Average rating: 3.93 · 19,145 ratings · 1,220 reviews · 5 distinct works · Similar authors
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexi...
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 13,837 ratings — published 1997 — 30 editions
Madness: A Bipolar Life
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 4,510 ratings — published 2008 — 20 editions
The Center of Winter
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 673 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions
Sane: Mental Illness, Addic...
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
Waiting: A Nonbeliever's Hi...
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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“You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.”
Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“There is, in fact, an incredible freedom in having nothing left to lose.”
Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

“We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.”
Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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