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Robin Friedman : author and journalist

Nothing

Flux/Llewellyn Worldwide | forthcoming August 2008
Teen Novel

Nothing by Robin FriedmanInspiration

I met an old friend from college years after we graduated, and he mentioned in passing that he had an eating disorder when we knew each other.

“An eating disorder?” I said.
“I didn’t know that.”

“Nobody did.”

“But you’re a guy!”

“So?”

“Guys get eating disorders?”

“Yup.”

That’s all it took.

Summary

Parker Rabinowitz isn’t your typical Jewish teen.

Well, he’s a smart rich kid from the Jersey ’burbs, on his way to med school, overscheduled, overloaded, and living in a pressure-cooker, like everyone else.

But Parker looks different, feels different, and, lately, his behavior has been very different.