Reviews

Starvation Mode by Elissa Washuta

adrienner's review against another edition

3.0

I'm not sure where and who the suggestion to read this book came from, but I put it on my list and paid-for and downloaded it.

This book is triggering as fuck. If you don't have food or eating issues, you will probably be fine. I have no idea why I thought this book would be okay for me to read but it was not. I had to take a huge break shortly into the book. Then I had to finish it all in a rush to get it over with. It was so hard to read.

I don't know if I do or do not recommend this book. It's a good book for your list of needing to read more women, more Native writers, more books about mental health. But, it's not a good book if you have triggers around food.

knkoch's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

5.0

spinningjenny's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

rachaelgoesreading's review against another edition

5.0

A tiny, powerful book. I lost myself here and felt keenly the comfort and discomfort of food and nourishment, of the difficult business of staying whole but only whole enough.

paulieg's review against another edition

5.0

Clever and devastating, Washuta's second memoir explores the hollow salvation that food promises but rarely provides to our psyches and bodies.