spaghetti for starving girls
having graduated college with an eating disorder and a rapidly worsening drinking problem, our narrator is set adrift in the real world. after drunkenly sabotaging her plans to move to new york for a lucrative job in investment banking, she finds work both at a high-end italian restaurant and the university hospital taking care of adolescent anorexia patients.
a coming-of-age story set against high-octane restaurant kitchens and high-acuity hospital rooms, spaghetti for starving girls tackles alcoholism, anorexia and the service industry in this savory, sensuous, and occasionally sordid book.
