A Dance of Sisters
10 best books like A Dance of Sisters (Tracey Porter): Mercy, Unbound, The Stone Girl, Goodbye, Paper Doll, The Passion of Alice, Losing It, Restricted, Diary of an Anorexic Girl, Starving for Attention: A Young Woman's Struggle with and Triumph Over Anorexia Nervosa, Diary of an Exercise Addict, The Anorexia Diaries: A Mother and Daughter's Triumph Over Teenage Eating Disorders
Mercy, Unbound
| Author | Kim Antieau |
| ISBN | 1416908935 |
Mercy O'Connor is becoming an angel. She can feel her wings sprouting from her shoulder blades. They itch. Sometimes she even hears them rustling. And angels don't need to eat. So Mercy has decided she doesn't need to either. She is not sick, doesn't suffer from anorexia, is not trying to kill herself....
| Author | Alyssa B. Sheinmel |
| ISBN | 0375870806 |
Goodbye, Paper Doll
| Author | Anne Snyder |
| ISBN | 0451159438 |
Anorexia Nervosa...
That was the doctor's diagnosis. But seventeen-year-old Rosemary Norton knew better. She wasn't sick; the doctor and her parents were only worryworts. Jason, who said he loved her, was just like the rest of the boys; all he cared about was her...
The Passion of Alice
| Author | Stephanie Grant |
| ISBN | 0553378619 |
Losing It
| Author | Sandy McKay |
| ISBN | 1877361747 |
Fifteen-year-old Johanna Morrison is in hospital, writing letters to her best friend, Issy. As part of her therapy Jo is not allowed to leave her room, use the phone, have visitors or even wash...
Restricted
| Author | Jennifer Kinsel |
Diary of an Anorexic Girl
| Author | Morgan Menzie |
| ISBN | 0849944058 |
Starving for Attention: A Young Woman's Struggle with and Triumph Over Anorexia Nervosa
| Author | Cherry Boone O'Neill |
| ISBN | 0896382745 |
This is a good book, and memorable, just because it is so awful--I found Cherry's lack of insight extremely disturbing and creepy, while at the same time I did not judge or blame her for her disease, and I certainly sympathized with her disease.
What I remember regarding...
| Author | Peach Friedman |
| ISBN | 0762748966 |
The Anorexia Diaries: A Mother and Daughter's Triumph Over Teenage Eating Disorders
| Author | Linda Rio |
"Tara seems fine these last few days. The questions she asked me the other night scared me....
| Author | Zippora Karz |
| ISBN | 0373892039 |
It was the stuff dreams are made of until, at...
| Author | Lorie Ann Grover |
| ISBN | 0689865252 |
with stiff shanks,
hard boxing,
tight elastic,
and slippery ribbons
that wrap and end
in hard knots.
The frayed edges
are crammed
out of sight.
We stand.
A row of bound...
| Author | Carolyn Meyer |
| ISBN | 0152051163 |
| Author | Celeste Conway |
| ISBN | 0385733399 |
| Author | Glen C. Strathy |
| ISBN | 1462018718 |
| Author | Miriam Wenger-Landis |
When eighteen-year-old dancer Anna Linado began her professional ballet career with the prestigious Los Angeles Ballet Theatre, she thought all of her dreams had come true. Company life offered glamorous...
| Author | Toni Bentley |
| ISBN | 0813027055 |
Bentley's association...
| Author | Adrienne Sharp |
–CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI
Author of The Mistress...
| Author | Janice Barringer |
| Author | Jacques D'Amboise |
| ISBN | 1400042348 |
In this rich, expansive, spirited memoir, Jacques d’Amboise, one of America’s most celebrated classical dancers,...
| Author | Gretchen Ward Warren |
| ISBN | 0813009456 |
| Author | Alexandra Moss |
| ISBN | 0448435357 |
Insatiable: The Compelling Story of Four Teens, Food and Its Power
| Author | Eve Eliot |
| ISBN | 1558748180 |
Good Girls Do Swallow: The Darkly Comic True Story of How One Woman Stopped Hating Her Body
| Author | Rachael Oakes-Ash |
| ISBN | 1840184809 |
Running on Empty: A Diary of Anorexia and Recovery
| Author | Carrie Arnold |
| ISBN | 1928623026 |
The author says early on that what sets her book apart from other memoirs on the topic is that she talks not only about being sick but...