When you have nothing left, is there any strength to bring you back? Anorexia gripped Jim Kohl when he was 34 and held him prisoner for almost 2 years. Skeletal Marriage shows how Jim started on the anorexic path, the games it made him play with calories and treadmill miles, the way it ended his marriage, and how it nearly killed him. Anorexia is a character with a mind of its own in the book. Jim listens to the anorexic voice and builds its strength until he has no choice but to listen and obey. Jim weighed nothing, was nothing, and still survived to write this book.