Current Issues: Eating Disorders — In Fiction?
I’m close to continuing work on the next book in the Sadhu Singh/Taylor Franke series. The new book is called Starving For Life, the story of Pauline Granger, a recovering anorexic who is caught up in the murder of a department store guard.
I was reading a blog, The Fictionistas, and came across a related article, pointing out the range of eating disorders that exist today, not just for girls, but for people in general. It is worth a read:
http://fictionistas.blogspot.com/2008/06/disordered-eatingits-not-just-for.html
I would be interested if you think a novel that has a character who has had an eating disorder is a draw or not. Do you know of any other YA or adult fiction that has such a character? Comments please.