Broken Bones is the story of Michael Rinnovi, a distraught 25-year-old: 5'11, 95 pounds. He has barely eaten or slept in months. Michael wakes up nearly dead in an emergency room, and the doctors say he's too far gone; he needs extensive rehabilitation. Michael signs himself into a psychiatric ward for people with eating disorders. Broken Bones is his journal. "With shades of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Baker brings the reader into the cold concrete of an eating disorder ward, ferrying him through a month of constant observation, brutal rigidity, and rationed showers, of drug-clouded...
Broken Bones is the story of Michael Rinnovi, a distraught 25-year-old: 5'11, 95 pounds. He has barely eaten or slept in months. Michael wakes up near...