{"product_id":"food-and-loathing","title":"Food And Loathing","description":"In FOOD AND LOATHING a bright, chubby girl believes that thinness is next to godliness and so attends one of the first meetings of Overeaters Anonymous in 1975. Her twenties are marked by yo-yo dieting, depressive episodes and a sadistic shrink. Then, just as her dream of being a writer is within reach, entering Columbia's prestigious MFA program, she spirals into a suicidal depression and lands for a six-month stay at New York State Psychiatric Institute. There a young resident helps her take her first steps towards selfhood, unravelling the self-loathing of an eating disorder coupled with a paralysing mood disorder. He also helps her confront a tragic family secret whose silence had enveloped an otherwise average Jewish middle-class family.   FOOD AND LOATHING is a book about how people use food to narcotise, to love and to escape. It's about therapy -  the good, the bad, and the down right destructive - and about every woman who spends too much of her life thinking about her weight and how she can forgive herself for living - and even learn to love.","brand":"Virago Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40741769216085,"sku":"9780349008479N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/21c071ce-60a8-44bb-87c7-0610d2e2b68b.jpg?v=1702673873","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/food-and-loathing","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}