skinny

to purge or not to purge?

From a dysfunctional family, young Rowena Gay Wine’s childhood was fragmented, chipped away, day after day, year after year. Her innocence robbed, trust betrayed, self esteem constantly scrutinized, hence thinking that her discovery of the once unknown ‘bulimia’ was sadly her saviour. As the clock ticked for Rowena, she came to understand that her newfound liberation was in fact a pact with the devil, a sentence of imprisonment... invisible shackles of slavery.

Author Rayni Joan paints an all too vivid picture of the Beatnik era, and how life was for Rowena (Joan’s alter ego) growing up in Newburgh, New York in the 50’s and decades to follow. Catapulted on a journey of whirlwind adventure; courageous travel expeditions, broadened education, political activism, sex, lust, love, and a great number of life’s facets that hold truth for so many, Rowena’s very existence mirrors that of a cat with nine lives.

A detailed account of an audacious young woman who discovers life on her own terms, eventually understanding that around every corner, the sun rises and a new harvest grows.

LALLOUZ INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE: A personal triumph for Rayni Joan; the first ever to author a revelatory news article, “Women: Fat of the Land”, that appeared on the front page of the Los Angeles Free Press in 1970, as well as dozens of other weeklies read by millions of Americans. Joan’s bold confession of binge eating and purging, an addiction later recognized as ‘Bulimia Nervosa’, part of a worldwide epidemic of eating disorders. ‘The Skinny’ is more than just words of another bulimic tale on recycled paper within a novel; it's an escalatory voyage of bravery and excess indulgence that transcends into a personal world of healing and wellness -- proof that where there is life, there is hope. For every female who walks the face of the earth -- a magnetizing read! ‘The Skinny’ is an inevitable winner!