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by Roxane Gay

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From the publisher

The New York Times Bestseller

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

Lambda Literary Award winner

From Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist, a memoir in weight about eating healthier, finding a tolerable form of exercise, and exploring what it means to learn, in the middle of your life, how to take care of yourself and how to feed your hunger.

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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"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 had been 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 I made but barely recognized or understood but of my own making. I was miserable, but I was safe."

In this intimate and searing memoir, the New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls "wildly undisciplined." She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties--including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point in her young life--and brings readers intwo 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 it tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be.

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  • Title Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
  • Author Roxane Gay
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper, U. S. A.
  • Publication date 2017-06
  • ISBN 9780062362599 / 0062362593
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.7 x 1 in (20.83 x 14.48 x 2.54 cm)
  • Reading level 980
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects African American women, Body image
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Booklist, 05/15/2017, Page 10
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/2017, Page 68
  • Library Journal, 12/01/2015, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 12/01/2015, Page 74
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/15/2017, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 07/11/2017, Page 0
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