Slim to None

Anorexia took Jennifer Hendricks's life at the age of 25. In an effort to help others who struggle with eating disorders, her father, Gordon Hendricks shares Jennifer's journal entries that chronicle 10 years' worth of his daughter's true emotions, trauma, and opinions about her battle with anorexia - its causes, her treatments, and her progress, or lack thereof. This is the first story that truly enables a reader to get inside the head of an emotionally and physically disturbed young woman as she writes in her journal candidly and uninhibitedly and without apologies, ironically part of her suggested treatments by one of her many psychiatrists. The central focus of this eloquently written story is the lack of understanding the "mental health system" has about anorexia, even in the dawn of the 21st century - a world that Jennifer dubbed "the Wasteland of her treatment." The editor of Jenny's journal is Gordon Hendricks, Jenny's father and at one point closest confidante. Although Jenny's experience is not unique, her book is. There is nothing in the marketplace featuring a non-survivor, written principally from her point of view and mostly in her words. Slim to None is one of a kind