This reads like a YA novel, but it’s a memoir. It wasn’t my favorite, but it was so comforting to find. It’s especially great to have it told through the eyes of a teenager, because most sufferers begin as teens.

A passage that resonated with me, and still gives me goosebumps: “When I stared at the mirror and tried to recognize the girl without eyebrows, eyelashes, and bangs as myself and failed, I knew something had gone horribly wrong. It’s hard to recognize yourself when you’ve pulled at your eyebrows so consistently that there is almost nothing left. It’s hard to believe you could have done something so destructive to your face, and that tomorrow you have to go to school pretending nothing is different.”

Yeah. That could have been pulled (heh) from my journals.

Part of A Trichy Pull-List: Best Books on Compulsive Hair-Pulling at Book Riot.