9780062420718
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist a searingly honest memoir of nourishment, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.
"I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe."
In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, 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 explores her past--including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turnin
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About the Book
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 proceed 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.
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With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that contain 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.
Freshma &#;A gripping book, with vivid details that linger long after its pages stop. . . . Hunger is arresting and candid. At its best, it affords women, in particular, something so many other accounts deny them&#;the right to take up space they are entitled to, and to define what that means.&#; &#; Atlantic &#;A work of staggering honesty . . . . Poignantly told.&#; &#; New Republic &#;The book&#;s short, sharp chapters come alive in vivid personal anecdotes. . . . And on nearly every page, Gay&#;s raw, forceful prose plants a flag, facing down decades of shame and self-loathing by reclaiming the body she never should have had to lose.&#; &#; Entertainment Weekly &#;Bracingly vivid. . . . Adj. . . . Undestroyed, unruly, unfettered, Ms. Gay, live your life. We are all surpass for having you do so in the same ferociously truthful fashion that you have written this book.&#; &#; Los Angeles Times &#;Searing, smart, readable. . . . &#;Hunger,&#; like Ta-Nehisi Coates&#; &#;Between the World and Me,&#; i From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself adj, my body would be secure. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.
In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, 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 explores her past&#x;including the devastat
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