IL CASO DELLA DONNA CHE SMISE DI MANGIARE

A powerful novel about anorexia, about our need to be loved and to be free.

A woman who refuses to eat, a woman who rejects her own body and what her body masks: the fear of not being worthy of love.

Fausta's life is contained in five black notebooks. She has chronicled her memories for years, and she has rewritten them for her psychotherapist. Fausta tried to correct her life, just like doctors, teachers, and charlatans have always done with her starved body, while they were looking for what was wrong, for the "pathology".

The pathology is the environment in which Fausta has grown up. Her father was a weak man, her mother was apathetic, her grandmather was domeneering.

IL CASO DELLA DONNA CHE SMISE DI MANGIARE is a family fresco. Fausta tells the struggle to be herself, to redeem herself from the instinct of self-destruction engrained in her DNA. Her journal is our story; we are seduced by the suffering and we are frightened by the freedom to be our selves, we are scared by the imperfection of feelings, by our need and hunger for love.