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Home › Articles › Eating Disorders › Eating Disorders in the Spotlight

Eating Disorders in the Spotlight

An Interview With Eve Eliot

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iP: Why did you write Ravenous?
EE: The readers of Insatiable were quite insatiable as to knowing what might happen to the girls next. Many of them wrote to me asking if I had written any other books. They wanted more. In fact, I was quite curious myself as to what would happen to Samantha, Phoebe and Hannah and the rest of their therapy group. I wanted to know if Phoebe was ever going to have a boyfriend. I wanted to know if Hannah would ever come to terms with her mother's death, her bulimia and her lesbianism. I wanted to know if Samantha would finally stop cutting herself and start eating something other than lettuce and apples. So I wrote Ravenous in order to find out.

iP: Why did you write your own song lyrics for Ravenous?
EE: I wanted to make music much more important in Ravenous than it was in Insatiable, but I was reluctant to use real bands because bands come and go so fast that in a few months, or definitely in a year, the music the characters were in love with would be obsolete. So I decided to invent my own bands – The Fat Barbees and The Suicidal Clones, for example – and write lyrics for them. It was not only fun to write the songs, but I was also able to dramatize very specifically whatever challenge the characters were facing on that particular page.

iP: Why do Phoebe's journal entries sound like articles from the Enquirer?
EE: Phoebe really loves the Enquirer and the Star and when she writes about herself in her journal, she likes to make fun of herself. What she discovers is that if she writes about something upsetting as though she is writing an article about someone else, she feels much less upset. Writing about herself in the third person – writing about "she" instead of "I" – removes her from the center of the crisis, and the emotion around it becomes less overwhelming. Also, Phoebe is the editor of her college paper, so she is very accustomed to writing articles about other people.


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