{"product_id":"9781626258310","title":"Ink in Water: An Illustrated Memoir (Or, How I Kicked Anorexiaa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“An incredibly important, extremely relatable memoir about learning to love the hardest person of all: yourself.”\u003cbr\u003e —Liz Prince, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTomboy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Compelling, funny, occasionally heartbreaking, and full of genuine hope in ways that most graphic memoirs never achieve artistically. ... Don’t miss this one.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt once punk rock and poignant, \u003ci\u003eInk in Water\u003c\/i\u003e is the visceral and groundbreaking graphic memoir of a young woman’s devastating struggle with negative body image and eating disorders, and how she rose above her own destructive behaviors and feelings of inadequacy to live a life of strength and empowerment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a young artist living in Portland, Lacy Davis’s eating disorder began with the germ of an idea: a seed of a thought that told her \u003ci\u003eshe just wasn’t good enough\u003c\/i\u003e. And like ink in water, that idea spread until it reached every corner of her being. This is the true story of Lacy’s journey into the self-destructive world of multiple eating disorders. It starts with a young and positive Lacy, trying to grapple with our culture’s body-image obsession and stay true to her riot grrrl roots. And while she initially succeeds in overcoming a nagging rumination about her body, a breakup with a recovering addict starts her on a collision course with anorexia, health food obsession, and compulsive exercise addiction. At the request of her last real friend, she starts going to a twelve-step Overeaters Anonymous course, only to find that it conflicts with her punk feminist ideology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending bold humor, a healthy dose of self-deprecation, vulnerability, literary storytelling, and dynamic and provocative artwork by illustrator Jim Kettner, \u003ci\u003eInk in Water\u003c\/i\u003e is an unflinching, brutally honest look into the author’s mind: how she learned to take control of her damaging thoughts, redirect her perfectionism from self-destructive behaviors into writing and art, and how she committed herself to a life of health, strength, and nourishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Harbinger Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47032085872880,"sku":"9781626258310","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781626258310_p0.jpg?v=1763865939","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781626258310","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}