{"product_id":"9780063278394","title":"More, Please","description":"\u003cp\u003eONE OF TIME 100'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024 • A DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF 2024 • FEATURED IN NYLON • W MAGAZINE • GLAMOUR • BOOK RIOT • HEYALMA • BUSTLE • ELECTRIC LITERATURE • ROMPER • AND MORE!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tender, funny, angry, and sharp as hell. This is an essential book for anyone with a body, anyone with a heart.\" —Helen Rosner, James Beard Award-winning food journalist and New Yorker staff writer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising culture commentator and writer for Vogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMillions of us use restrictive diets, intermittent fasting, IV therapies, and Ozempic abuse to shrink until we are sample-size acceptable. But for the 30 million Americans who live with eating disorders, it isn’t just about less. More, Please is a chronicle of a lifelong fixation with food—its power to soothe, to comfort, to offer a fleeting escape from the outside world—as well as an examination of the ways in which compulsory thinness, diet culture, and the seductive promise of “wellness” have resulted in warping countless Americans’ relationship with healthy eating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelding memoir, reportage, and in-depth interviews with some of the most prominent and knowledgeable commentators currently writing about food, fatness, and disordered eating—Virginia Sole-Smith, Virgie Tovar, Aiyana Ishmael, Leslie Jamison, and others—Emma Specter explores binge-eating disorder as both a personal problem and a societal one. In More, Please, she provides a context, a history, and a language for what it means to always want more than you’ll allow yourself to have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis raw and necessary book explores:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEating Disorder Recovery:\u003c\/b\u003e Specter chronicles her lifelong fixation with food with unflinching honesty, offering language for what it means to want more than you’ll allow yourself to have.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFat Acceptance:\u003c\/b\u003e A powerful look at compulsory thinness, fatphobia, and how the seductive promise of \"wellness\" warps our relationship with our bodies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eComing Out Story:\u003c\/b\u003e Delving into the intersection of queerness and body image, this memoir explores how identity shapes our hunger and our healing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn Anti-Diet Book:\u003c\/b\u003e Melding personal narrative with sharp reportage, Specter interviews leading voices like Virginia Sole-Smith and Leslie Jamison to dismantle diet culture.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Emma Specter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46908534227093,"sku":"9780063278394","price":13.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780063278394_f12b12cc-3db2-4f7a-8060-96df9e317401.jpg?v=1776889892","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780063278394","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}