Nervosa

“A perceptive, heart-wrenching, deeply personal, beautifully drawn story of the writer's difficult upbringing and efforts to overcome it.” —Will Shortz, crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times

“An unflinching debut memoir filled with sharply recalled details and darkly funny observations. . . . bring[ing] the readers intimately into the emotions of living with an eating disorder.” —Publishers Weekly

A remarkably candid account. The compelling voice and graphic storytelling is intuitive and inventive throughout.” —David Mazzucchelli, author of Asterios Polyp

"Pure gold. Brave and honest, poetic and balletic as it artfully dances into personal territory rarely touched in this medium." —Peter Kuper, author of the Eisner Award-winning Ruins

“Unflinching and heart-rending and at the same time caustic and hilarious. The inventive visual metaphors and obvious pleasure in language show us that art and creativity can be a path to hard-won hope.” —Matt Madden, author of Ex Libris

“Funny, cruel, moral, austere, decorative, despairing, and triumphant. Comics were invented so that Hayley Gold could write and draw Nervosa.”—Seth Tobocman, author of War in the Neighborhood

“I couldn't put it down. This powerful memoir shows how eating disorder patients are denied agency, and how healing only starts when one is finally able to express their voice.”—Sarah Mirk, author of Guantanamo Voices

“Structurally brilliant, and darkly humorous, this revealing graphic memoir is an excellent read for anyone who is looking for companionship in this experience, or a window into living life with this disease.”—Rachel Lindsay, author of RX: A Graphic Memoir

“Brilliantly, and with equal parts of humor, horror, and self-knowledge, this book teaches us that there are no common-sense answers to the paradoxes of anorexia, and that readers who hope for an easy ‘cure’ should expect to have their preconceived notions of what that word means shattered and reconstructed.”—Jason Little, author of Borb