By Clare B. Dunkle
As heard on NPR's Diane Rehm Show!
Clare Dunkle looked as if it would have an awesome life—two attractive, high-achieving teenage daughters, a loving husband, and a delightful and profitable occupation as a kid's ebook novelist. yet it really is for those who permit down your defend that the ax falls. simply after one daughter effectively conquered her melancholy, one other daughter constructed a life-threatening consuming affliction. Co-published with Elena Vanishing, the memoir of her daughter, this is often the story—told in courageous, superbly written, and unflinchingly sincere prose—of one family's struggle opposed to a virus, from a regularly overlooked yet vital standpoint: the mummy of the anorexic
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I had forgotten that I even had a house. The two girls were sisters, Kate and Emily, and they wore dresses with the empire waists and long, trailing skirts of Regency-era England. They appeared to have stepped out of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and I realized that Kate, at least, would have loved to find herself in Pride and Prejudice. But, bad luck for her, this was not a Jane Austen world. There were surprises waiting for the two sisters in this tangle of hoary trees. I glimpsed a large black cat with huge golden eyes—I could tell right away that he wasn’t a regular cat.
This was when I pinpointed problems and brainstormed solutions to try out the next morning. This was when I got all my best mothering done. A good day could roll by in five minutes. But a bad day took time. This day had been so unexpected and awful that I went over it again and again. Maybe it was housemother trouble. Elena often butted heads with certain housemothers. The mothering she did of the younger girls interfered with their own brand of mothering, and she was such a vigorous crusader against injustice that she often stirred up trouble for those authority figures who liked to play favorites.
They threw me out,” he complained. Behind him, from the kitchen below, came the clatter of metal pots and the sound of girlish chatter. “They wanted to make dinner,” I explained. ” Joe paused, his tie still half undone. “Um . . ” he said, resuming work on his tie. ” As if in answer, a loud crash sounded from the kitchen. I dropped my sewing. ” I asked. “Don’t come down! ” called Elena’s voice. “Just a teeny situation,” added Valerie’s. And then both voices joined in shrieks of laughter. A few minutes later, the girls called us downstairs and ushered us to the table, where four green salads waited in bowls.