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The Thorpe Menn Award
Harvard Medical School
The Midwest Book Review
- My Other Body was awarded the 2007 Thorpe Menn Award for Literary
Excellence given by the American Association of University Women. See
the Thorpe Menn judges' remarks.
Harvard Medical School
- Harvard Medical School chose My Other Body as one of only one of four
books featured at the 20th Annual Practical Approaches to the Treatment
of Obesity conference. See the conference director's remarks.
The Midwest Book Review
- "This inspiring and inspired account is powerfully presented and engages
the reader's total and rapt attention from beginning to end."
Read the review.
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Reviews & Awards
Writer's Digest
New York University
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
in the AAMC Reporter
- My Other Body took first place in the 2006 Writer's Digest International Self-Published Books
competition. See the Writer's Digest judges' critique.
The premiere inside-industry reviewer of print-on-demand and self-published books chose My Other
Body as a finalist for her 2006 Golden Needle awards.
"Speaking of prose, the writing here is absolutely magnificent. . . The memoir is rich, powerful, and--
most of all--bittersweet. And, unlike most memoirs, this one has an unexpected twist."
Read the full review.
New York University
"What we come to understand about eating disorders by reading such a candid and difficult memoir
is that the discomfort, the confusion and the impatience that we as onlookers feel about obesity is
infinitesimally small in comparison to the pain and the helplessness of those who are, themselves,
suffering with an eating disorder."
Read the complete entry.
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
in the AAMC Reporter
- "Indeed, medical students today are just as likely to be reading Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and
Dimed, an account of trying to make a living on $7 an hour, or Ann Pai's My Other Body, a memoir of
her sister's compulsive eating, as they are to be reading Tolstoy or Camus."
Read the entire article about the use of stories in teaching medicine.
"I found the book very well written, and I thought you managed to tackle an awfully difficult and
possibly off-putting subject in such a manner that the reader is not only able to fully sympathise
with your sister's plight, but is able to put aside the judgemental and condescending attitude that,
let's face it, our society all too often permits when confronting obesity. I felt a lot of grace in the
book and think you should definitely keep writing!!!!"
"I wanted to thank you for including me among those who get to read your book, pre-publication. I
found your descriptions of what it feels like to be in the throes of a binge eating episode to be
haunting and visceral…some of the best descriptions I’ve read!"
"While Ann Pai’s My Other Body is a magnificent monument to a beloved sister who struggled with
morbid obesity, and, ultimately, with life itself, it is much more than that.
"It is a generous gift of empathy to everyone who has ever struggled with the limitations of being a
fallible human being. Readers, whether they are personally fighting obesity or less visible demons,
will thank Ann Pai for understanding the difference between a problem and a person.
"My Other Body is an advanced course on love, not the easy kind that some feel while riding a
wave of good fortune, but the hard kind, that loves more deeply as what is most precious slips
away."
| My Other Body: a memoir of love, fat, life, and death by Ann Pai |