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Cree LeFavour

Biography

Cree LeFavour

Cree LeFavour is a writer and the author of several cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-nominated FISH. She has a BA from Middlebury College and a PhD in American Studies from NYU. Her work has also appeared in publications including the New York Times Book Review, Oprah Magazine, Times (UK) and Bon Appétit.

Cree LeFavour

Books by Cree LeFavour

by Cree LeFavour - Memoir, Nonfiction

As a young college graduate a year into treatment with a psychiatrist, Cree LeFavour began to organize her days around the cruel, compulsive logic of self-harm. Her body was a canvas of cruelty; each scar a mark of pride and shame. The thrill of meeting with her psychiatrist, Dr. Adam N. Kohl --- whose relationship with Cree is at once sustaining and paralyzing --- comes to be the only bright spot in her days. LIGHTS ON, RATS OUT brings us closely into these years, recounting a fiercely bright and independent woman’s charged attachment to a mental health professional and the dangerous compulsion to keep him in her life at all costs.