I like who the story begins with a narrative. it follows the narrator as she confronts her illness in an interaction with Cherry Garcia ice cream. Her attention to detail and the quality of her behaviors make her metal state more easily graspable to the inexperienced reader. From there she goes into detail about the research that has been done on Bulimia. Personally, I am much more attached to her story rather than her research; the constant citing of sources within the body paragraphs takes me out of the story and makes the subject matter less retainable. I was happy, however, that after her research she slides us back into her own experience with therapists and physicians. I like how she challenges the research she hd brought up only sentences before.
I also enjoyed how her narrative ping pong across different time periods in her life. We start with her at 24 and then later we here a story from when she is 14. I think showing the amount of time she has lived with this ailment is important. She takes us through her entire life with bulimia and also takes to the end of that life, when she is finally rid of it. Over all I think she approached the ethnography in the best way possible and she kept it very personal.
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