At sixteen, Regina began cutting back on meals to the point where her hairstarted to fall out.? Later, she began to binge at night while her family slept.For a long time, she was able to keep her eating disorder a secret, thoughhiding her problem didn't stop it from harming her emotional and physicalwell-being. The pressures of wanting to succeed as an artist led her to anervous breakdown and, finally, a strong desire to start from scratch.
InFat, Austrian-born author and artist Regina Hofer documents her battle withanorexia and bulimia. This powerful and imaginative graphic novel follows Reginafrom her childhood home in Upper Austria, where food and family mealtimes wereoften associated with feelings of personal failure, to art school at theMozarteum University Salzburg and a violent reckoning with her dysfunctionalfamily.
Vivid and courageous, this memoir will resonate with anyone livingthrough or seeking to understand what it is like to live with an eatingdisorder.
Extraordinary. . . . Juxtaposing surrealimagery and unvarnished confessions, this intense work opens up the pain ofliving with an eating disorder, pairing artistic innovation with wrenchingconfessional. -starred review, Publishers Weekly
There are few who command those panelbeats like Hofer does, her art amenable to tonal sequences not always easy tofollow, but providing readers with reliable unease. - The ComicsJournal
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED) --Rendered in stark black-and-white and repetitive four-panel grids, Hofer'sextraordinary debut chronicles her dizzying descent into anorexia and bulimia.She opens with the admission that she still struggles with disordered eating:closelÓ
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