Bones is the roller coaster story of Robyn Shumer's lifelong battle with—and triumph over—a crippling eating disorder. It's an honest, first-person account that takes the reader inside the emotional, mental, physical, and social world of an anorexic from childhood to adulthood, through four decades of a changing society whose message to girls and women remained stubbornly the same: "thinner is the winner."With humor, Shumer paints a memoir of self-hatred, self-love, loss, ...

Bones is the roller coaster story of Robyn Shumer's lifelong battle with-and triumph over-a crippling eating disorder. It's an honest, first-person account that takes the reader inside the emotional, mental, physical, and social world of an anorexic from childhood to adulthood, through four decades of a changing society whose message to girls and women remained stubbornly the same: "thinner is the winner."With humor, Shumer paints a memoir of self-hatred, self-love, loss, ...