Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager
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I am so scared.I feel like I'm silently screaming for help and no one pays any attention of tries to hear me.I can't control anything anymore. It's all out to get me!When Kim can't handle things, she eats. Then she purges. Sometimes she fasts. She knows she isn't as thin as the other girls on her gymnastics team, and she's worried that now, away from home for the first time as a college freshman, she won't be able to live up to expectations — especially her own. Eating is the one thing she can control — or can she?Lynne Remick - KLIATTDuring her senior year of high school, Kim comes to an important personal revelation she's a few pounds overweight and "empty inside." Bound to a seesaw of emotional ups and downs, Kim binges, purges and fluctuates from "too heavy" to "too thin." Unable to maintain balance in her diet, weight or relationships, she cries out for help with a silence that no one can interpret. Through high school, Kim hides her eating disorder from her parents, siblings, best friends, school and peers. However, during her transformation from a high school student living at home in Arizona to a UCLA college freshman, the threads that keep her secret at bay fall apart and so does Kim. Written in the form of a diary ("edited" by Beatrice Sparks, Ph.D., editor of Go Ask Alice), Kim: Empty Inside portrays the tormented emotions of a teenage girl suffering from anorexia nervosa. The most frightening aspect of this book lies in the fact that Kim, on the outside, appears to be like so many other relatively normal teenagers. While the subject matter of the book seems depressing, it proves enlightening, and ends with hope which is something teens can never have too much of nowadays. KLIATT Codes: S Recommended for senior high school students. 2002, HarperCollins, Avon, 165p.,
