Review: "A Year in the Life of Bulimia" by Melanie J. Marklein

A Year in the Life of Bulimia by Melanie J. Marklein
Published 2003 via Publishamerica
★★

A short look at a young woman's experience of a year of depression and bulimia. This is published in diary form, and though I don't know how much editing was done between writing the diary and publishing it, I'd guess that it's largely raw material. Feels very much like an accurate depiction of an unhappy late-teens-early-twenties depression, but unfortunately that's not a sort of diary that is particularly interesting to read. Lots of angst, lots of passive (and sometimes active) ideation, lots of depressed poetry. It makes a <i>ton</i> of sense for a diary, but as a book I'm not sure what to take away from it.