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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties -- including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life -- and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life.

With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be.

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Amazon.com Review

In her brutally honest and brave memoir Hunger, [Roxane] Gay recounts a childhood sexual assault that led her to purposely gain weight in order to be unseen and therefore "safe." Gay warns at the beginning of the book that if you're looking for a triumphant weight loss memoir, this is not it. But Hunger is a triumph nonetheless. It's a story not easily told, but the telling set her free. And through Gay's experience we learn one of lessons she eventually did, that "all of us have to be more considerate of the realities of the bodies of others," and more accepting of our own. --Erin Kodicek, The Amazon Book Review

Product Details

Recommended Age Adults
Author Roxane Gay
ISBN 0062362593
Publication Date Jun 13, 2017
Publisher Harper
Language English