Wasted was banned in many public school systems due to its many drug and alcohol references as well as repeated sexual encounters. It has been translated into sixteen languages and sold over a million copies in the U.S.
Her book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, is a Pulitzer Prize nominated autobiographical account of her struggle with eating disorders, written when she was twenty-two. In short, we do it on faith.Marya Justine Hornbacher (born 4 April 1974) is an American author and freelance journalist. Sometimes we do it because we know we need to, though we may not know why.
Waiting, you’ll discover, can become a kind of spiritual practice in itself, requiring patience, acceptance, and stillness. And there are many points along the way where we stop, or we fumble, or we get tangled up or turned around. When we let it in and only when we do, she says, we begin to be integrated people. Relinquishing the concept of a universal “Spirit” that exists outside of us, Hornbacher gives us the framework to explore the human spirit in each of us-the very thing that sends us searching, that connects us with one another, the thing that “comes knocking at the door of our emotionally and intellectually closed lives and asks to be let in.” In Waiting, Hornbacher uses the story of her own journey beginning with her recovery from alcoholism to offer a fresh approach to cultivating a spiritual life.
“Many of us have been trained to think of spirituality as the sole provenance of religion and if we have come to feel that the religious are not the only ones with access to a spiritual life, we may still be casting about for what, precisely, a spiritual life would be, without a God, a religion, or a solid set of spiritual beliefs.”įor those who don’t believe in God, feel disconnected from the ideas of God presented in organized religion, or are simply struggling to determine their own spiritual path, Marya Hornbacher, author of the New York Times best sellers Madness and Wasted, offers a down-to-earth exploration of the concept of faith.
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