Jana Frey » Only Air for Breakfast « 12+, June 2009 176 pages, 12.5 x 18.5 cm ISBN 978-3-7855-6762-3 paperback 5,95 € (D) Rights sold: Korean

Serafina weighs 64 kilos. She feels fat and unhappy. She would love to be slim like her friend Ernestine and her sister Maria. This desire becomes so overpowering that one day she stops eating. Serafina starves herself until there‘s almost nothing of her left. Serafina is not alone. Every year thousands of girls succumb to anorexia. Jana Frey paints a vivid picture of the vicious circle into which the girls are drawn.

Jana Frey was born in 1969. She started writing when she was only five years old. She studied litera...