Hunger
A Memoir of (My) Body
Roxane Gay
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 turning point in her young life–and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.
With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved–in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.
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Details
| ISBN | 9780062569714 |
| Genre | Autobiography/Biography; Award Winner; Memoir; Black Interest |
| Publication Date | 13-Jun-17 |
| Publisher | Harper |
| Format | Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 320 |
| Notes | Lambda Literary Award Winner, Bisexual Nonfiction
New York Times bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A best book of 2017: Time NPR People Elle The Washington Post The Los Angeles Times The Chicago Tribune Newsday St. Louis Post-Dispatch PopSugar BookRiot Library Journal Booklist Kirkus Reviews Shelf Awareness |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Great |
| Subject | Biography & Autobiography |
| BookID | 5646 |
