My debut novel, All That Fills Us, is here!
You know that feeling you get when a lifelong dream comes true? That’s was me when All That Fills Us hit bookshelves. But enough about me. After all, you’re here to learn more about your next favorite book.
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.
You can find your copy of All That Fills Us at the Baker Book House (for 30% off!) or through Amazon or Barnes and Noble! All That Fills Us is also available as an audiobook.
And in case you’re the type who’s afraid of commitment, the first chapter of All That Fills Us is available for free!
If you’re a librarian or bookstore owner or you’re the leading member of a book club with especially good taste, I’m up for in-person or virtual visits, signings, and events (especially those in Michigan or the PNW!)! Contact me at lytleautumn@gmail.com and I’d love to work with you to set something up.
Endorsements
“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. First-time novelist Lytle does not shy away from any angle of Mel’s struggle, thoroughly revealing the shame and addictive allure of self-destruction. 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
“Brave and compelling. Mel’s journey toward revelation and hope is an invitation for us to see ourselves as God sees us and to discover–or rediscover–why our stories matter.”–Sharon Garlough Brown, author of Shades of Light and the Sensible Shoes series
“With humor and compassion, intricate insights, and singular descriptions, Autumn Lytle has captured the pain of encroaching mental illness. May there be many more healing stories from this truly gifted author.”–Jane Kirkpatrick, bestselling author of The Healing of Natalie Curtis
“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.” —Erin Bartels, award-winning author of All That We Carried
“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, and relationship tangles that snarl and resolve under the hand of a gifted writer.” —Cynthia Ruchti, author of Miles from Where We Started, Afraid of the Light, and Facing the Dawn