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. 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. 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. 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. 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. She teaches English at Purdue University. Her previous books include Bad Feminist, Difficult Women and An Untamed State. Hunger will be published on June 13, and is available for pre-order on Amazon. Roxane Gay is a novelist and short story writer. Many thanks to Harper for sending an ARC for early review.
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What is often deemed the most intoxicating part of weight. Louis Post-Dispatch PopSugar BookRiot Library Journal Booklist Kirkus Reviews Shelf Awareness I found that Roxane Gay’s personal narrative in Hunger provided the most perfect story to support the philosophy-heavy Scarry book, and the medical book by Gabor Mate. In her moving new memoir, the writer explores desire, denial, and life in an unruly body. As for Hunger, I have mixed emotions about this book.
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I wasn’t familiar with Roxane Gay before I listened to this book, but I am going to be reading/listening to some of her other books in the future. The title and subject matter had me intrigued as a plus-size woman myself.
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National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistĪ best book of 2017: Time NPR People Elle The Washington Post The Los Angeles Times The Chicago Tribune Newsday St. Buy Hunger here, or anywhere books are sold About the reviewer: Alison Buckholtz is author of Standing By: The Making of an American Military Family in a Time of War (Tarcher/Penguin, April 2009 in paperback April 2013). I had been wanting to read this book for a couple of years.