This ambitious, ribald, and extremely honest first novel attempts to unravel the familial and social pressures that drive two sisters into a life of serious food abuse. One survives, the other doesn"t. Frannie, though she does not succumb completely to anorexia, is near the breaking point, and Hunger Point takes us along on her painful and often funny emotional odyssey of rebirth, detailed with her family"s embattled love and her own self-loathing. Food is not the only matter of the body that is treated brilliantly; the author"s soul-baring depiction of both the miseries and pleasures of sex from a woman"s point of view is unforgettable and occasionally terrifying.