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'Sharply intelligent . . . a consoling and enraging book' - Sarah Moss, author of The Fell 'Electric with insight' - Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering In Dead Weight, Emmeline Clein fuses her own experience of disordered eating with social commentary told through the stories of other women - famous figures from across time and popular culture, and girls she's known and loved - and traces the medical and cultural history of anorexia, bulimia, orthorexia and binge eating disorder. In writing that's electric, fierce and endlessly curious, Clein investigates the economic conditions underpinning our eating disorder epidemic, grapples with the myriad ways disordered eating has affected her own friendships and romantic relationships, and illuminates how today's feminism has been complicit in disordered eating culture. Through it all, she challenges the accepted narratives women absorb every day about themselves, revealing the dangerous messages that connect female worth to inhabiting an ever-smaller form. Galvanizing readers against disordered eating, Clein imagines a world where we allow ourselves to listen to our appetites and fight back against these diseases of self-destruction. In an age of appetite suppression, it is far past time for a book like Dead Weight.

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A lyrical and scrupulously researched portrait of disordered eating in its many manifestations . . . An authoritative, generous and persuasive debut that I wish I could go back in time and gift to my teenage self. -- Melissa Febos, author of <i>Girlhood<i> This book is a bomb, made of all of the fury and intensity of any girl who wonders what exactly they are hungering for. Joan Didion of the Tumblr era. This manifesto is meant to be devoured, in all of its witty, compassionate, feverish, elegantly argued brilliance. -- Kate Zambreno, author of <i>Heroines<i> Urgent, intense, and often captivating . . . A book that deserves attention. -- Starred review * Kirkus * With fierce wit, excavating curiosity, and a heart fully surrendered to her subject, Clein writes about eating disorder culture from the inner reaches of what this culture has wrought. This book is electric with insight, and suffused with a strange, stubborn tenderness - a deep regard for what intimacy, hope and resistance might look like in a world where women are taught to devote their lives to destroying themselves. -- Leslie Jamison, author of <i>The Recovering<i>

Electric with insight. * Leslie Jamison *

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Emmeline Clein's writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Yale Review, BuzzFeed News, VICE, The Nation, Catapult and Antigravity, amongst other publications. Her chapbook, Toxic, was published by Choo Choo Press in 2022. She received her MFA from Columbia's School of the Arts and lives in New York. Dead Weight is her first book.

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