My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss audiobook review – a life shaped by anorexia and literature | Autobiography and memoir

A Painful exploration of a life formed by literature and loss of appetite, He fell author Sarah MossNotes are informed in the second person, as if the current algae treats itself directly. During her childhood in the seventies of the twentieth century, when every adult woman she knows is on a diet, Moss absorbs a message that she must be smart but calm and unpopular; It should be beautiful and semi -self -shoulder, but it should not appear in vain.

Through the novel, it is the books of its formative years, written by Arthur Ransum, Louisa May Alcot, Silvia Plath and Bonterez, where Moss is alert to photograph women and femininity (she was secretly read, because her parents considered her a sign of cancellation). Moss begins to see her body as a battlefield, which is what she must exercise control and strength. This leads it to the calorie calculating in an obsession, and the cake declined at birthday parties (which are often congratulated), and eventually stop eating completely.

Scottish actor Murvin Christie is the narrator: her reading is measured and reflects, and the accelerated beauty of the Moss wanders. It also inhabits the brutality of the author’s inner voices, which she wanders when they are suspected of being deceived or compassion for self and whispering: “Silence, no one cares.” The final diagnosis of the loss of appetite follows the specific treatment: instructions to take more and drink four cups of milk daily. It is no wonder that Moss’s disease follows her to the stage of adulthood, where she reached her head during the epidemic, where she becomes worse and the doctor warns her: “If we do not fed you now, you will die.”

Available via picador, 8 hours 28 minutes

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