Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780062362599)

The New York Times Bestseller

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

Lambda Literary Award winner

From Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist, a memoir in weight about eating healthier, finding a tolerable form of exercise, and exploring what it means to learn, in the middle of your life, how to take care of yourself and how to feed your hunger.

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.

Author: Roxane Gay
ISBN-10: 0062362593
ISBN-13: 9780062362599
Publisher: Harper
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2017
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
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