trained as a writer and extremely intelligent, hornbacher’s wasted is the best depiction of what it is like to have eating disorders that i’ve ever come across.

the book doesn’t come across as preachy or pathetic because hornbacher understands her disorder thoroughly (she has obviously spent lots of time ruminating over it and that comes across in this book). she doesn’t claim to be “over” her eating disorder, and honestly conveys what it is like to always be haunted by it.