Fat by Regina Hofer, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

At sixteen, Regina began cutting back on meals to the point where her hairstarted to fall out.? Later, she began to binge at night while her family slept. For a long time, she was able to keep her eating disorder a secret, thoughhiding her problem didn't stop it from harming her emotional and physicalwell-being. The pressures of wanting to succeed as an artist led her to anervous breakdown and, finally, a strong desire to start from scratch. InFat, Austrian-born author and artist Regina Hofer documents her battle withanorexia and bulimia. This powerful and imaginative graphic novel follows Reginafrom her childhood home in Upper Austria, where food and family mealtimes wereoften associated with feelings of personal failure, to art school at theMozarteum University Salzburg and a violent reckoning with her dysfunctionalfamily. Vivid and courageous, this memoir will resonate with anyone livingthrough or seeking to understand what it is like to live with an eatingdisorder. | Fat by Regina Hofer, Paperback | Indigo Chapters