Saving Sara

By Sara Somers,

Book cover of Saving Sara: A Memoir of Food Addiction

Book description

For nearly fifty years, Sara Somers suffered from untreated food addiction. In this brutally honest and intimate memoir, Somers offers readers an inside view of a food addict's mind, showcasing her experiences of obsessive cravings, compulsivity, and powerlessness regarding food. Saving Sara chronicles Somers's addiction from childhood to adulthood, beginning…

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

1 author picked Saving Sara as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

An excellent, well-written memoir of what it is like to be a food addict. Sara Somers tells her story of discovery and how she finds recovery. You really feel the drama of what it is like to eat, to overeat to the point of shame and sickness, and then that is possible to recover from even the worst case. A book to identify and feel inspired to change.

From Vera's list on capturing sugar and food addiction.

If you love Saving Sara...

Ad

Book cover of Tap Dancing on Everest: A Young Doctor's Unlikely Adventure

Tap Dancing on Everest by Mimi Zieman,

Tap Dancing on Everest, part coming-of-age memoir, part true-survival adventure story, is about a young medical student, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor raised in N.Y.C., who battles self-doubt to serve as the doctor—and only woman—on a remote Everest climb in Tibet.

The team attempts a new route up…

Want books like Saving Sara?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Saving Sara.

Browse books like Saving Sara

Book cover of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Book cover of Bright Line Eating: The Science of Living Happy, Thin and Free
Book cover of Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease

Share your top 3 reads of 2024!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,884

readers submitted
so far, will you?

Ad

📚 If you like Saving Sara, you might also like...

Book cover of Up the Down Escalator: Medicine, Motherhood, and Multiple Sclerosis

Up the Down Escalator by Lisa Doggett,

2024 Gold Winner, Benjamin Franklin Awards, Health & Fitness Category

2024 International Book Awards, Winner, Autobiography/Memoir Category and Health: Women's Health Category

A memoir of triumph in the face of a terrifying diagnosis, Up the Down Escalator recounts Dr. Lisa Doggett's startling shift from doctor to patient, as she learns…

Book cover of Loveland

Loveland by Susan Ostrov,

What happens when a feminist who studies romance turns the lens on her own romantic adventures?

Loveland is about how the author came to understand this journey to the far country of love—dating, marriage, a forbidden love affair, an unusual love affair as an older woman—as part of a larger…

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in addiction, health, and food addiction?

Addiction 60 books
Health 122 books
Food Addiction 15 books