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This Mean Disease: Growing Up in the Shadow of My Mother's Anorexia Nervosa St. Simons Trilogy From the food secrets ofIn the first book written by the child of someone who died from an eating disorder, Daniel Becker shows us the heartbreaking details of his mother's anorexia nervosaher unrelenting obsession with food and her inability to nourish herself. His earliest memory of her is watching as she packs her suitcase for the first of numerous hospitalizations. From the observations of that confused child to his realization of helplessness as an adult, Daniel conveys