brEAThe, a memoir, takes you into a world where the primal instincts for survival, to eat and breathe, are all but extinguished.

Growing up in a picture-perfect Christian family, Muriel's formation as a young child and the shaping of her spiritual understanding are riddled with cracks. The veiled dysfunction and forgotten secrets send her reeling into an isolated abyss. Struggling with anorexia and depression from the age of fifteen through adulthood, Muriel struggles to make sense of the chaos. Then she remembers, shattering the fa