An Alternate Selection of the Book of the Month Club and Quality Paperback Book Club

Although it reads like a novel a funny, touching, and absolutely gripping novel Stick Figure is, astonishingly, the diary of Lori Gottlieb in 1978, when, at age 11 and all evidence to the contrary, she decided she was too fat and simply stopped eating
Boston Globe

Growing up in Beverly Hills in the 1970s, Lori Gottlieb learned the lessons her culture had to teach her for example, that no one could ever like a girl with thunder thighs. Lori took those lessons seriously, and saw...

Based on the author's childhood journals, "a smart, funny, compassionate journal of the author's bout with anorexia at age eleven" (Entertainment Weekly) .

"I wish to be the thinnest girl at school, or maybe even the thinnest eleven-year-old on the entire planet," confides Lori Gottlieb to her diary. "I mean, what are girls supposed to wish for, other than being thin?"

For a girl growing up in Beverly Hills in 1978, the motto "You can never be too rich or too thin" is writ large. Precocious Lori learns her lessons well, so when she's told that "real women don't eat...