Goodreads asked Ken Capobianco:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Ken Capobianco As people can see from my biography, I suffered from anorexia for a long time, so I knew I wanted to explore what I went through only in a fictional manner. I also wanted the book to be more than a recovery novel. I'm a fan of them and think they do a great service, but I wanted to explore a variety themes and ideas while making the anorexic experience palpable to readers. Of course, this is the first novel to explore anorexia from a male point of view, so I wanted to speak to a large group of people who have never been represented in a novel before. Ultimately, while it's a story of a young man with an eating disorder, there are universal themes in the book that transcend ed and food.

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