Empty - Susan Burton
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Autobiography & Biographies
Growing up, Susan Burton had never heard of binge-eating. She just knew she felt her best when she was empty, like a straw, as she says something you could blow through., For almost thirty years, Susan Burton has hidden her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence., When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents abrupt divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl. But she hadnt escaped unscathed, and in the fallout from her parents breakup, an inherited fixation on thinness went from peculiarity to pathology. She entered into a painful cycle of anorexia and binge eating that formed a subterranean layer to her sunny life. She went from success to successshe went to Yale, scored a dream job at a magazine right out of college
