{"product_id":"9780743456999","title":"Homesick : A Memoir of Family, Food, and Finding Hope","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHomesick\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jenny Lauren\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith captivating blue eyes and dark hair, Jenny Lauren looked as though she'd stepped out of one of the ads for which her uncle, Ralph Lauren, is famous. It was not long, however, before she found herself in a world where it was easy to see herself as less than perfect. She was ten years old when she first starved herself. After many years of bingeing, purging, and compulsively exercising, her body fell apart. Her colon herniated and she was forced to undergo surgery. At twenty-four, living in chronic pain, she wrote \u003ci\u003eHomesick\u003c\/i\u003e as a cautionary tale that she hoped would touch many. \u003cbr\u003e This unflinching account details her struggle with anorexia and bulimia, yet is also a much larger story that focuses on universal issues: the intricacies of family ties, the pressures of society, the search for selfhood, and ultimately the power of hope. With flashes of wit and a knowing beyond its young writer's years, \u003ci\u003eHomesick\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting and emotionally complex story of pain and hard-won recovery that no reader will forget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\"Jenny Lauren's memoir should be required reading for every teenage girl in America. Like the author, this book is honest, hilarious, brave, tenacious, and shameless, in all the right ways.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- Pam Houston, author of \u003ci\u003eSight Hound\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] story about learning to accept one's body as one's home.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- \u003ci\u003eTeen Vogue \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lauren is intelligent, creative, and a skilled writer, and she evokes empathy.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[O]ne of the most harrowing personal accounts of living with an eating disorder ever published.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- \u003ci\u003eThe Daily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHomesick\u003c\/i\u003e should be required reading for all pre- and adolescent girls...and any parent who wants to know what's really going on with their daughters.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - Tama Janowitz, author of \u003ci\u003ePeyton Amberg\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSlaves of New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"As urgent and intimate as a best friend's phone call, \u003ci\u003eHomesick\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles Jenny Lauren's descent into an Alice in Wonderland medical nightmare. But \u003ci\u003eHomesick\u003c\/i\u003e is not about sickness. It's about persistence, strength, and the awesome power of one woman's will to fight for herself and get better.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - Jillian Medoff, author of \u003ci\u003eHunger Point\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGood Girls Gone Bad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Almost every girl wakes up one morning wondering whether she's too fat -- but if you're Jenny Lauren, that's a particularly loaded question. The niece of fashion icon, Ralph Lauren, \u003ci\u003eHomesick\u003c\/i\u003e is a home run for the issue of eating disorders in America. Jenny Lauren courageously chronicles her own battle with bulimia in this raw account, which finally lead me to understand the intricacies of this illness. Her story will certainly help others like herself and their families and actually help save lives.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - Andy Behrman, author of \u003ci\u003eElectroboy: A Memoir of Mania\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Never have I read a more honest account of a life in turmoil and the powerful desire to reshape it. In \u003ci\u003eHomesick\u003c\/i\u003e Jenny Lauren confronts her 'fashion world' family, her doctors, therapists, and -- most of all -- herself, and her ruling passion to starve. This memoir is bare-bones beautiful.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e - Barbara Robinette Moss, author of \u003ci\u003eChange Me into Zeus's Daughte\u003c\/i\u003er\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780743456999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Washington Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40589277692110,"sku":"9780743456999","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_138db63b-1684-41f2-96ec-5e95eb61ebbc.jpg?v=1637715301","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780743456999","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}