Stick Figure
A Diary of My Former Self
$29.91
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
17 November 2009
Summary
Lori Gottlieb—psychotherapist, national advice columnist, and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone—shares her “gripping” (The Boston Globe) chronicle of adolescent anorexia that “stands out as a fresh, edgy take…on that perilous time in a girl’s life when she’s no longer a child but not quite an adult” (Entertainment Weekly).
For a girl growing up in Beverly Hills in 1978, the motto “You can never be too rich or too thin” is writ larg…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781439148907 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1439148902 |
| Author: | Lori Gottlieb |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 17 November 2009 |
| Weight: | 191g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 147mm x 214mm |
| Audience Age: | 12-17 |
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Critics Review
Peggy Orenstein author of School Girls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap By turns earnest and funny, hopeful and tragic, eleven-year-old Lori is a latter-day Alice: She takes us through the distorted looking glass that’s held up to young girls and into the harrowing land of eating disorders. There is no other word for it: You will devour this book – and, hopefully, keep right on eating.
Lori Gottlieb
Lori Gottlieb is a psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, which has sold over three million copies and has been translated into over thirty languages. In addition to her clinical practice, she writes The New York Times “Ask the Therapist” advice column and is cohost of the popular Dear Therapists podcast and the advice podcast Since You Asked. A contributing writer for The Atlantic, she also wrote The Atlantic’s “Dear Therapist” advice column for six years. She is a sought-after expert appearing on Oprah, the Today show, The Daily Show, Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, CNN, and NPR’s Fresh Air, and her TED Talk has over 7 million views and was one of the Top 10 Most Watched of the Year. She is the creator of the Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Workbook: A Toolkit for Editing Your Story and Changing Your Life and the Maybe You Should Talk to Someone Journal: 52 Weekly Sessions to Transform Your Life.
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