Hope and Other Luxuries: A Mother's Life with a Daughter's Anorexia

By Clare B. Dunkle

Book Overview

As heard on NPR's Diane Rehm Show
Clare Dunkle seemed to have an ideal life--two beautiful, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a satisfying and successful career as a children's book novelist. But it's when you let down your guard that the ax falls. Just after one daughter successfully conquered her depression, another daughter developed a life-threatening eating disorder. Co-published with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is the story--told in brave, beautifully written, and unflinchingly honest prose--of one family's fight against a deadly disease, from an often ignored but important perspective: the mother of the anorexic.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1452121567
• ISBN13: 9781452121567
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"