5/20/2023 0 Comments Wasted book marya![]() ![]() According to Marya, she would not breast-feed “because it made her feel as if she were being devoured.”Įmotional abandonment seems to have been the keynote of Marya’s existence from earliest childhood, when, she recalls, her mother would look at her with what “I would later come to think of as the bug-zapper face, as if by looking at me, she could zap me into disappearance.” Mother and child spent their quality time together at a gym with others not so different from them: ![]() Her mother, who also worked in the theater, was another matter. Her father, a theater director, seems to have had moderately affectionate feelings for his daughter but to have been at a loss as to how to act on them. An only child, Marya was born in California to middle-class, baby-boomer parents whose attention was mostly elsewhere. From her account here, it is easy enough to appreciate why. ![]() Written in jaunty, direct prose, it tells a story that is heartbreaking.įor most of her life, Marya Hornbacher has suffered from various eating disorders that have caused her weight to fluctuate between a normal 135 and a decidedly abnormal 52 pounds. Paul Magazine that led to an award and eventually to this book. She does not have a college degree, and “technically” she never graduated from high school, but in 1993 she wrote an essay about herself for the Minneapolis-St. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |