All That Fills Us
- Fiction
- Women
- Publisher: Revell (Baker Publishing Group)
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
Mel Ellis knows that her eating disorder is ruining her life. Everyone tells her rehab is her best option, but she can't bring herself to go. Broken and empty in more ways than one, Mel makes one last-ditch effort to make hers a story worth telling. She will walk her own road to recovery along the lesser-known trails of the North American wilderness. Though she is physically and mentally unprepared to face the difficulties that lay ahead, she sets off on foot from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and heads toward Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State. During the long journey, she meets strangers with their own stories, as well as ghosts from her past who can no longer be ignored. But though the land she travels threatens her success at every turn, it's her own dark thoughts she'll have to overcome in order to find peace in the life and the body she has been given. With pitch-perfect timing and delightfully witty self-awareness, debut author Autumn Lytle masterfully leads readers on a journey down the hard path toward healing.***"All That Fills Us is a compelling drama of the complex battle with the debilitating longing for perfection as enacted through a severe eating disorder. Told in an equally raw and wry first-person narration, this tale bears powerful witness to how the individual's quest for wellness is necessary groundwork for collective healing."--Booklist"Lytle draws on her own experience with eating disorders to take readers inside Mel's mind and misguided thinking about her own worth and health."--Library Journal
Endorsements (3)
“Sharon Garlough Brown, author of Shades of Light and the Sensible Shoes series “You don’t have to have poor body image or an eating disorder to be fed by the charmingly disarming debut novel All That Fills Us. I did not want this story to end. With humor and compassion, intricate insights, and singular descriptions, Autumn Lytle has captured the pain of encroaching mental illness. She’s also taken us on a journey with words to breach wounds and remind us of the grace of unexpected community. May there be many more healing stories from this truly gifted author.”
“Brimming with beauty and perfectly paced, this poignant novel connected with me in ways I didn’t think a story about a girl with an eating disorder could. I was stunned to see so much of myself in the character of Mel—striving to achieve, consistently hard on herself, and hoping that her efforts might amount to something meaningful in the end. Autumn Lytle’s moving debut is one of those books that will linger in the hearts and minds of those who read it.”
“Autumn Lytle’s All That Fills Us takes the reader on a journey they will not expect—both as they accompany the main character’s physical adventure and her emotional pilgrimage. But it’s a story that will truly make the reader believe they know and may have embraced—or perhaps are—the main character. They’ll also want to play all the supporting cast member roles (or most of them) and will emerge from the reading experience wholly altered. Rich imagery, emotive language, language, and relationship tangles that snarl and resolve under the hand of a gifted writer.”
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