JoAnna Novak
Author
Language
English
Description
The year is 1999, and thirteen-year-old Elliot is a self-appointed "diet coach" who teaches her classmates how to survive on one stick of gum a day to get heroin-chic, Kate Moss thin. Elliot is obsessed with her best friend and former "client" Lisa, who is fresh out of inpatient treatment and dating a nineteen-year-old drug dealer. Meanwhile, Elliot's mother Anna, a capricious poetry professor, has a drug addiction and eating disorder of her own....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Language
English
Description
An author struggling with a creative block and depression during her pregnancy tells the story of how an obsession with abstract expressionist painter Agnes Martin helped her face up to the joys and challenges of impending motherhood.
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