In her searing, unflinching memoir, Marya Hornbacher lays bare her years-long battle with anorexia and bulimia—a war she once romanticized, until it nearly killed her. Wasted chronicles how a brilliant young woman spiraled into self-destruction, chasing hunger, chaos, and control with relentless precision.
This updated edition features a new afterword where Hornbacher—now a respected voice in the field of eating disorders—confronts the complexities of recovery with the same honesty that made the original a classic. She offers no easy answers, only the urgent truth: recovery is possible, but never simple.
Brutally honest and deeply human, Wasted remains a powerful touchstone for anyone grappling with the realities of eating disorders, or seeking to understand them. It’s not just a memoir—it’s a reckoning.
