Lie of the Beholder, Special Edition

 

This book is sold out. Swallow is the revised edition of Lie of the Beholder, and is available for sale.

From a high school girl who states, ‘'Assured my guts worked, you could lower me to the shade and watch, as I did, the blue glimmer of my veins;’ to the woman who is devastated that she’s eaten half of a ‘burrito as big as [her] head’ and purges until she’s late for an appointment; to a young man who is so disoriented by his own reflection that he ‘looked down or up [instead,] and noticed what people left behind and what they were aiming for;’ the characters in Lie of the Beholder are fascinatingly honest, deeply human, and above all beautiful. The book is an intimate look at the daily lives of eating disordered individuals, in and out of recovery. Frightening, unorthodox, and not afraid to look the reader in the eye, this writer bears readers through unexplored and challenging territory with unexpected wit, tenderness, and respect for her characters.

Click here to read excerpts from Swallow.

deborah brandon recently completed an MFA in Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work appears in Hotel Amerika, Puerto del Sol, Slipstream, Evergreen Chronicles, and BirchLane.