A review by seawarrior
Hungry Ghost by Victoria Ying

5.0

A great graphic novel about the fear and guilt that amplifies eating disorders, especially when they're trained into a young person by their parent. I appreciated that this story portrayed the thought process of a teenage girl who starts out obsessed with thinness and perceived perfection in the eyes of her mother, and later re-evaluates why she feels this way and aims to improve her fatphobic beliefs and suffocating relationship with her mother as she works towards recovery. The illustrations are colorful and dynamic; breezy in some scenes, yet display emotion clearly in tenser ones.  This is a valuable book for those who've been affected by disordered eating and who are learning how to balance their love for their parents with their frustration towards their hurtful behavior. This is a difficult story to tell, yet Ying never stumbled. 
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