Shani Raviv is a misfit teen whose peer-pressured diet spirals down into full-blown anorexia nervosa something no one in her early-nineties, local South African community knows anything about. Fourteen-year-old Shani spends the next six years being Ana (as many anorexics call it), on the run from her feelings. She goes from aerobics addict to Israeli soldier to rave bunny to wannabe reborn, using sex, drugs, exercise and, above all, starvation, to numb out everything along the way. But one night, at age twenty, Shani faces the rude awakening that if she doesn t slow down, break her denial,...
Shani Raviv is a misfit teen whose peer-pressured diet spirals down into full-blown anorexia nervosa something no one in her early-nineties, local Sou...