“I was also writing in a tradition and trying to do something different with it, something that hadn't necessarily been done before, which was a risk, but it made it interesting. My relationship with food has been complicated and rocky and not always wonderful, and it's a lens through which my entire life and identity are refracted.” WritingTryingHas BeensMadeDifferentDoneInterestingWonderfulRiskIdentityTraditionComplicatedMade ItLenses Author:Kate Christensen
“When you're sixteen and struggling to forge an identity out of a morass of hormones and daydreams, remarks like that cut a deep groove in the brain. I trace the ongoing, victorious-feeling semi-starvation of my twenties directly back to adolescence - as a way of showing those assholes that I could control my appetites... Which is so sad, in retrospect, because of course no one cared.” WayFeelingsCoursesBrainStruggleCuttingIdentityTwentiesAppetiteAdolescenceOngoingRemarksStarvationDaydreamingSixteenHormonesRetrospectGrooveSo SadNo One Cares Author:Kate Christensen