num_pages: 306
description: From the New York Times 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.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 popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body 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 explores her pastincluding the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young lifeand brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.With the bracing candor vulnerability and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food a smaller and safer body and a body that can love and be lovedin a time when the bigger you are the smaller your world becomes.
language: English
title: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
publisher: HarperCollins