Category Archives: Anorexia nervosa

Writing Becomes Difficult

Posted on April 6, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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An Apology to Kate

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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A Creative Mind in Crisis

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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The Awkward Dance of the Imaginary and the Real

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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Many of you know my daughter Elena as the protagonist of her memoir about adolescent anorexa nervosa, Elena Vanishing. And some of you write to me occasionally to ask how she’s doing. I thought I’d bring you up to date. … Continue reading →

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Clare Dunkle | 4 Comments

Looking Back, Looking Ahead, Looking Around

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Clare Dunkle

For the last fifteen months, I’ve been pretending that Elena’s and my memoirs, Elena Vanishing and Hope and Other Luxuries, didn’t exist. It was just too painful to think of the darkest moments of our lives out there in bookstores … Continue reading →

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