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Grade: B

THIN is a photo essay coffee table book profiling twenty girls from are free Coral Gables, a world renowned eating disorder clinic. The teens and women profiled through photographs, interviews and journal entries tell their struggles with varying degrees of insight and in different stages of the recovery process. Four of the women, all who have relapsed also report after they've left treatment. Three doctors are also interviewed.

I first saw the 2004 HBO documentary THIN, and decided to check out the book. Photographer/writer Lauren Greenfield captured the essence of these women, and their eyes illustrated their pain more than their words. Interviewees can lie, writers can spin, but eyes are the mirrors of truth.

I wish the book, published in 2006, had update because I was curious as to how all the participants were doing a decade after their treatment.