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AUTHOR: Roxane Gay
PUBLISHER: Harper Collins Original
LANGUAGE: English
DATE: 2017
PAGES: 306
ISBN: 9780062362599
AWARDS: Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction (2018), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2017), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2018), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2017), Reading Women Award for Nonfiction (2017)Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize Nominee for Nonfiction Shortlist (2018), Litsy Award for Non-Fiction (2017)
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by 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.
INCLUSION CRITERIA
Roxane Gay identifies as bisexual. In Hunger, she discusses several of her earliest relationships with men and women.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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