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Elena Vanishing by Elena Dunkle and Clare B. Dunkle

Reviewed by Jess ELENA VANISHING by Elena Dunkle & Clare B. Dunkle Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Chronicle Books (May 19, 2015) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of a girl whose armor against anxiety becomes artillery against herself as she battles on both sides of a lose-lose war in a struggle with anorexia. Told entirely from Elena's perspective over a five-year period and cowritten with her mother, award-winning author Clare B. Dunkle, Elena's memoir is a fascinating and intimate look at a deadly disease, and a must read for anyone who knows someone suffering from an eating disorder. It seems almost impossible to describe the voice in your head when you have an Eating Disorder. The voice is disembodied, but it seems more tangible than a book in your hands or the food sitting on a plate in front of you. That voice fills up the s...