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Bellows, Charlotte.
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Bellows, Charlotte -- Health.
Bellows, Charlotte -- Mental health.
Anorexia nervosa -- Patients -- Canada -- Biography.
Coming of age -- Biography.
Eating disorders in women.
Body image in women.
Body image in girls.
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Bellows, Charlotte.
Bellows, Charlotte -- Health.
Bellows, Charlotte -- Mental health.
Anorexia nervosa -- Patients -- Canada -- Biography.
Coming of age -- Biography.
Eating disorders in women.
Body image in women.
Body image in girls.
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The definition of beautiful : a memoir / Charlotte Bellows.
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Bellows, Charlotte.
Freehand Books, 2023.
Call #:
616
.85262
B448d
Subjects
Bellows, Charlotte -- Health.
Bellows, Charlotte -- Mental health.
Anorexia nervosa -- Patients -- Canada -- Biography.
Coming of age -- Biography.
Eating disorders in women.
Body image in women.
Body image in girls.
ISBN:
9781990601460 (pbk)
Description:
248 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
"A stunning memoir of coming of age and recovering from anorexia in the 2020s. Charlotte Bellows wrote The Definition of Beautiful between the ages of fifteen and seventeen, in the wake of lockdown and in recovery from anorexia. In the tradition of Sylvia Plath in The Bell Jar and Françoise Sagan in Bonjour Tristesse, Bellows writes with deceptively straightforward urgency, pushing through society's constraints on the bodies and minds of girls and women to offer a story both achingly familiar and devastatingly new. In 2020, fourteen-year-old Charlotte's lifelong drive to achieve 'perfection' distorts into an all-encompassing obsession. Living between the suffocating world of lockdown and an uncanny dreamscape inhabited by competing avatars, Charlotte faces a parade of masked faces in hospital rooms, the aftermath of first love, the erosion of lifelong friendship, and the agony of seeing her illness devastate her family as it threatens to destroy her; as the world reopens, she finds new connections and mentors, new joy, new ways of thinking, new ways to be. Charlotte Bellows offers a potent fusion of insight and innocence -- a story for those who suffer or have suffered from eating disorders, but, more, a vital coming of age story of a young gay and artistic woman, tugged and throttled by a myriad of pressures, not least from the dark gravity that is the underside of her own creative drive."--Publisher.
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Autobiographies.
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