Insatiable: The Compelling Story of Four Teens, Food and Its Power

by Eve Eliot

Book Overview

In the pages of Insatiable you will meet: Samantha, the ice princess who resists eating to demonstrate her worth to others and to herself. She cuts herself to release and relieve her intense emotional turmoil. Hannah, the lost soul who expresses her self-disgust by throwing up the enormous quantities of food she eats when she is alone. Jessica, the rebel who starves herself in order to cope with the horror of her father's death from AIDS, and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558748180
• ISBN13: 9781558748187
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Health Communications
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

This book makes you want to starve yourself

I think that people should stop writing books on Anorexia, Bulimia and Cutting because it only drives you to do it. While reading this book I myself suffer from being a Cutter and a Bulimic, every time Samantha cut herself it made me want to cut, every time Hannah made herself throw up I wanted to make myself throw up, every time Phoebe went into the kitchen to fill up on milk, cookies, ice cream and pie, it made me want to do the same thing, and every time Jessica starved her self for food it made me want to starve myself. If your Anorexic, Bulimic or a Cutter you shouldn't read this book because it doesn't help you at all it only inspires you to harm yourself even more. This was a good book but it has some bad effects.

It felt like I was reading a novel..... about myself!

Wow. I reccommend this book to anyone dealing with an eating disorder personally, or knows someone dealing with one. I've been struggling with food issues myself, and have been struggling with Anorexia and Bulimia since I was thirteen (I'm almost fifteen now). This book taught me so much about life and everything teenagers will need to face. I felt like I was reading a novel about myself. My Anorexia was shown through Samantha and Jessica, my Bulimia through Hannah, and my binge-eating through Phoebe. I am literally obsessed with this book. I would like to write personally to Eve Eliot, but haven't been able to find her e-mail address. (?) Ravenous was also an excellent book of course, but I enjoyed Insatiable more. Keep up with the great work, Eve Eliot! I'll love you forever!

A Wonderful Book

This book is a definate must read for anyone who has every struggled with or even only wondered about an eating disorder. It very realistically portrays the horrors that a teenager with an eating disorder must face every day. This is one of the best books I have every read, every time I have read it.

Very Good Book

I think this book is a great book to smack reality into young teens about how eating disorders are. And it makes young teens who have eating disorders feel as if they are not alone and its ok to get help and at the same time tells you the dangers of eating disorders. I think it is a great book and i would recommend it to anyone i know.

Hi

I thought the book was really great. As I was reading it I saw a lot of me throught the book. I would recommend anyone to read it.