Wasted

作品简介： Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and ultimately, any sense of what it means to be "normal." By the time she is in college, Hornbacher is in the grip of a bout with anorexia so horrifying that it will forever put to rest the romance of wasting away. In this vivid, emotionally wrenching memoir, she re-created the experience and illuminated that tangle of personal, family, and cultural causes underlying eating disorders. Wasted is the story of one woman's travels to the darker side of reality, and her decision to find her way back--on her own terms. 为何一个才华横溢的年轻女孩走进穿衣镜，闯入了一个阴森的地下世界——食物象征贪婪，四壁被放大镜所覆，死亡成为荣耀，而有血有肉的生命却被称为软弱？为何她会卷入一起与饥饿、毒品、性与死亡相伴的罗曼史？罹患神经性厌食症和贪食症的玛雅·霍恩巴赫历经五次长期住院，无穷无尽的治疗，其间失去了家人、朋友、工作，最后是任何一点对“正常”标准的认知。大学时的玛雅在厌食症紧握的魔掌中挣扎，那种恐惧使她永远放弃了对于虚弱而死的浪漫主义幻想。 在这部鲜明生动，充斥着撕心裂肺的情感的回忆录中，她回溯了旧日的经历，并阐明了进食障碍背后的个人因素、家庭影响与文化根源。《荒废》是一个女孩在现实的黑暗之海中挣扎游历的故事——以及她决定以自己的方式找回自我的决定。 【试译：卢然/Lachesis】