My Other Body: A Memoir of Love, Fat, Life, and Death

My Other Body tells the story of the author?s sister's fatal battle with morbid obesity. This haunting, honest book weaves together three stories: the narratives of sisterhood, of Joyce?s descent through multiple, fatally undiagnosable illnesses, and of the author?s life as a woman managing a compulsive eating disorder.Unlike other narratives about obesity, My Other Body isn?t a story of victimhood, guilt, or the triumph of thinness over obesity. My Other Body is the story of how love survives the body?s challenges.