ljrinaldi 's review for:

Lighter Than My Shadow by Katie Green

4.0

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This book is 500 pages long. This book is raw. This book bares all about the authors struggle with her eating disorder, and how hard it was to overcome it.

She tries, and wins, and fails, and tries again. It is heart breaking when she binges and blames herself, and can't figure out when to eat, and starves herself, because that is the only way she is in control of her life. It is all laid bare, and 500 pages of it.

It would seem that that would be excessive, but it works. It would seem that having her try and fail would be disheartening, and it is, but that's is life, things do not get wrapped in a tidy bow the first time you go to a therapist.

Society, peer pressure, expectations of your parents, and teachers all helped to push Katie over the edge, so much so that at one point the said she was going to die if she did not learn to eat.

Sad book, hard book to read, but well worth it.

That is how it is writing about issues that no one wants to talk about.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.