The book is about teenage girls who are experiencing gender dysphoria and anorexia. The stereotype among both populations is that they're good girls, says the author. But it shouldn't obscure that there's more to the story than that, she adds.
Shortly after her fourteenth birthday, Hadley Freeman stopped eating. From the age of fourteen to seventeen, she lived in various psychiatric wards with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa. And for the next decade, the condition would revisit and interrupt her life in numerous ways. In conversation with journalist Bari Weiss and drawing on her new book Good Girls, Freeman recounts her harrowing account of this complex condition.
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