"Her uplifting story should raise awareness about eating disorders, reduce stigma, and help survivors and their families stay hopeful." Booklist In Slip, Mallary Tenore Tarpley carves out a "middle place" between acute sickness and full recovery for those of us with eating disorders. Tarpley is the perfect guide for this conversation, as she seamlessly blends memoir, reportage, and research. At all times, Slip remains accessible, realistic, and hopeful about the messy and maddening process of recovering from disordered eating. This tremendous book will comfort, inspire, and educate readers. We are lucky that it exists. Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author of Group This is a must-read for anyone affected by the devastation of an eating disorder. Those who have suffered themselves will find a redemptive narrative to guide their recovery. Loved ones will understand more about how to support recovery without expecting perfection. And clinicians, educators, activists, and policy makers may decide their narrative should be less about eradicating eating disorders and more about elucidating them. We need to make space in the middle, in the shadows, where recovery becomes possible, just as Tarpley has shown us. Margo Maine, PhD, clinical psychologist and author There is no single image of eating disorders in the United States, but so often, we think about eating disorders as a linear journey with a neat and happy ending. Mallary Tenore Tarpley beautifully disrupts this narrative with Slip, an erudite memoir that moves us into a new generation in which were not defined by our disorders. Its an essential addition to a canon of memoirs that shift paradigms and push us toward a new idea of what it means to recover and to fully, completely live. Evette Dionne, author of Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul Slip is a gorgeous, paradigm-smashing book that explores the liminal space between sickness and health where so many of us live. Blending memoir and reportage, Slip defies tidy narratives to show us we are not alone when we struggle, when we strive to get better, when we slip. Emi Nietfeld, author of Acceptance "Candid, courageous and meticulously researched, Slip is a game-changing addition to literature on disordered eating from the perspective of someone in committed recovery. Tarpleys quest to exercise control in a turbulent world is meaningful and timely, and this book is a necessary read for anyone trying to understandor grapple withthe dark side of perfectionism." Courtney Maum, author of The Year of the Horses
