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2020304 pages
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"Susan Burton is ready to come clean. Happily married with two children, working at her dream job, she has lived a secret life of compulsive eating and starving for twenty-five years. This is a relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent narrative of living with binge-eating disorder. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents' abrupt, hostile divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl.…

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4 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2021
    Random House Trade Paperbacks · 320 pages · 9780812982725
  • Hardcover · English · 2020
    Random House · 304 pages · 9780812992847
  • Audiobook · English
    Random House Audio · 9780553550894
  • Other · English · 2020
    Random House Publishing Group · 304 pages · 9780679644040
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