Raw
and wickedly funny, this debut memoir details one woman’s recovery from
her emotional eating disorder, while navigating divorce,
discrimination, motherhood, and the madness that is Tinder dating.
A riot of dark humor beginning with Jane McGuinness’s dysfunctional childhood in outback Australia, Always Hungry
explores themes of patriarchy and discrimination against the overweight
as it details Jane’s recovery from an emotional eating disorder.
Jane’s
journey to find herself is something of a curious social experiment:
She walks away from her long-term marriage, returns to grad school while
raising her three children in a foreign country, and gradually
transforms her health. Readers will find themselves amused and aghast in
equal measure as she recounts her experiences hiking the Camino de
Santiago through Spain, adventuring in Greece, and subjecting herself to
the horrors of post-divorce Tinder dating in her dry, self-deprecating
wit.
This debut memoir is truly a transformative journey in
every sense, as Jane ultimately discovers that it was never food that
she hungered for after all.
