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camillatd's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
slow-paced
5.0
Dead Weight is an urgent, important, brutal, and hopeful book--possibly the best book I've read on eating disorders in the contemporary United States. In essays both rigorously well-researched and achingly personal, Clein weaves together the threads of disordered eating, the internet, girlboss feminism, racialized fatphobia, and big pharma. Clein manages to articulate these sharp, emotive insights about the landscape of disordered eating, making connections I couldn't quite articulate on my own. It's a heavy, hurting one, so check CWs and proceed with caution, but I recommend this book highly and deeply.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Medical content, Death, and Vomit
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