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. ROXANE GAY is also the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Hunger the story collection Difficult Women the novel An Untamed State, which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize the essay collection Bad Feminist and several comic books in Marvels Black Panther: World of Wakanda series.
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. It was a book I needed to read for a project, and all I. When I was looking through my TBR trying to figure out what to read next, I discovered that Hunger was available on audiobook from my library and immediately dove in without reading any kind of summary. 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. TWs: discussion of eating disorders, sexual assault. 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 was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.' By Sadiya Ansari Special to the Star Fri., Jtimer 2 min. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. Author of the bestselling book Bad Feminist, Roxane Gay's latest work focuses on her relationship with her body. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble.
'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe.