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. 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. I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.'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. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. An intense, unsparingly honest portrait of childhood crisis and its enduring aftermath. I know hunger is in the mind and the body and the heart and the soul. My father believes hunger is in the mind. A heart-rending debut memoir from the outspoken feminist and essayist. I start to remember all the ways I have been hurt.
HUNGER is an amazing achievement in more ways than I can count.
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I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. Roxane Gay shows us how to be decent to ourselves, and decent to one another. 'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe.