6/5/2023 0 Comments Wasted marya![]() I was glad no one could see what I was reading. ![]() I couldn’t put it down-and I couldn’t stand how reading it made me feel. ![]() ![]() Intrigued, I hopped on iBooks and bought a copy. Illness overcame the person experiencing the illness.” I needed something to read on the long flight back to the USA. She said, “the title suggests the disease wrote it. She brought up Wasted, A Memoir of Anorexia by Marya Hornbacher. First, how Wasted came into it: Smigiero was discussing the collateral damage on family members and caretakers that madness wreaks. I’ll get to the useful writing-craft advice in a moment. ![]() Katarzyna Smigiero spoke on “How to describe what resists being put into words? Story-telling strategies in madness narratives.” Now, the presentations at this conference ranged from abstract to concrete, from over-my-head academic to “I could use that tomorrow.” Smigiero’s presentation fell at the concrete, useful end of that continuum. The question arose from a presentation at the recent Storytelling: Global Reflections on Narrative conference I attended in Oxford. Can Madness write a book? That was the question that led me to Wasted, a memoir about a young woman’s eating disorder. ![]()
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