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. 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. I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe.
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. 4.18 Rating details 95,037 ratings 10,886 reviews 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. 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. Throughout, Gay discusses her experience with weight, body image, and building a positive. Gay’s voice manages to beseech those who can. Its humility is authentic and its grace is hard-won.
It’s a spare, stripped-down statement for the cultural record, a document that is determined to chronicle how life feels from the inside of a body that’s been battered by forces beyond its control. Louis Post-Dispatch PopSugar BookRiot Library Journal Booklist Kirkus Reviews Shelf Awareness Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body was released in June 2017. But Hunger is not a litany of complaints. West Branch, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, the New York Times, the Guardian, Bookforum, Time. National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistĪ best book of 2017: Time NPR People Elle The Washington Post The Los Angeles Times The Chicago Tribune Newsday St. Roxane Gay is the author of the novel An Untamed State.