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.
Freshman Common Read: California State University: Channel Islands
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Miami HeraldBinding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper
Published: 06/13/2017
ISBN: 9780062362599
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.00d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2015 pg. 74
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2017 pg. 49
Library Journal 12/01/2015
Library Journal 02/01/2017
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2017 pg. 68
Booklist 05/15/2017 pg. 10
Publishers Weekly 05/15/2017
Library Journal 06/01/2017 pg. 116
Shelf Awareness 07/11/2017
Shelf Awareness 12/12/2017