"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...

The author shares her twenty-year experience as a "functional anorexic" and her journey to recovery and examines recent discoveries that have been made about the illness, including its connection to autism, OCD, and metabolic rate.