![]() ![]() Any one of her issues could belong to anybody else. Etta is snarky, fearful and fearless, broken and healer. The thing I like most about Moskowitz’s writing is how relatable she makes everything. But not fitting in, anywhere, that I know like it was braille. ![]() Only, I’m white, straight, well above high school age, and I kick my food addiction’s ass every day. Throw into the mix an 14-year-old anorexic girl from a fundamental Christian family with a closeted gay brother who falls in love with a boy from another town, a new boy for Etta, and there’s conflict for all kinds of stories. This, by the way is where the title comes from, EDNOS – Eating Disordered, Not Otherwise Specified. She doesn’t fit in with the others in her support group because she’s not sick enough to be given a specific diagnosis for eating disorders but not well enough to be considered healthy. ![]() That, in a nutshell, is the story of Etta, a black, bisexual, food disordered, high school student who wants to dance and get out of Nebraska.Įtta doesn’t fit in with her clique, the Disco Divas who shunned her when she had sex with a boy. Reading Not Otherwise Specified took me back to those days, and all the others when I didn’t know where I fit. When I was a SFF con-goer I used to describe myself as, “too mundane for the freaks, and too freaky for the mundanes.” (Substitute muggles for mundanes and you get the picture.) ![]() “Not gay enough, not straight enough, not sick enough, not healthy enough. ![]()
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