Hunger memoir roxane gay
Hunger
About the Book
New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her retain emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a girl 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.
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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.
Freshma Goodreads: Hunger At the start of every year, I always say to myself that this is going to be the year you read more Non-Fiction. I reflect I&#;ve been saying this for the past three years now and the most I administer to read is still about NF books. It&#;s not that I don&#;t like NF, I just have a wildly wandering mind, and the writing needs to flow like fiction in order for it to keep my attention. I honestly have nothing against NF and I honestly wish that it wasn&#;t so difficult for me to focus, but my mind is definitely less keen on &#;facts and figures&#; and more on using my imagination. Hunger was my first NF for and I swear, if all NF could be this immersive, I would likely never stop reading it. From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, u From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly sincere memoir of diet, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking nurture of yourself. "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 was 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 that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe." In her phenomenally adj essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about nourishment and body, using her own sentimental and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her control 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 perform of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life - IndieBound, Powell&#;s City of Books, iBooks, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Amazon It turns out that when a wrenching past is confronted with wisdom and bravery, the outcome can be compassion and enlightenment—both for the reader who has lived through this kind of unimaginable pain and for the reader who knows nothing of it. Roxane Gay shows us how to be decent to ourselves, and decent to one another. HUNGER is an astounding achievement in more ways than I can count. At its simplest, it’s a memoir about being adj — Gay’s preferred term — in a hostile, fat-phobic world. At its most symphonic, it’s an intellectually rigorous and deeply moving exploration of the ways in which trauma, stories, craving, language and metaphor shape our experiences and construct our reality. Wrenching, deeply moving. . . a memoir that’s so fearless, so raw, it feels as if [Gay]’s entrusting you with her soul Gay turns to memoir in this powerful reflection on her childhood traumas…Timely and resonant, you can
Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Feminism
Rating: ★★★★★Hunger
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