“Do not let her leave.”

| Marston, R. 2006-2008.

My hands trembled as I pulled the first volume down and flipped it open.

The first page was a meticulously plotted graph of Rowan’s body weight, beginning at age twelve. In the margin, my mother had written: Add 200 liquid calories to Sunday dinners to conceal evidence of restriction.

I turned the page. A printed list of Rowan’s continue reading …