Am I the Skinniest Person You've Ever Seen?

A playful bet between adolescent sisters turns from a summer diet into extreme starvation. Eisha recounts how her anorexia became entwined with beauty ideals and the glorification of thinness, ultimately becoming catastrophic. Her attempts to tame her body, she now knows, were a form of rebellion—against femininity, her melancholic mother, and the stifling warmth of her Indian ...