Hunger book roxane gay
Hunger
From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly honest memoir of meal, 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 love and sensitivity about food and body, using her own feeling and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our mutual anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a gal 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 past - including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life -
Four reasons Hunger is such a vital book
Gay exposes her life with an unflinching honesty that – ultimately – helps to provide salvation, which is all the more extraordinary given that Hunger revolves around a shocking incident Gay spent decades trying to suppress.
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She writes to share the story of her body – specifically, how her body changed from being that of an average year-old girl to one that, at its heaviest, weighed pounds. She is explicit about the emotional – and physical – pain of living in the world when you are “super morbidly obese”, according to your body mass index.
2. Sometimes it’s okay to acknowledge you are a victim
She wound up as a “woman of size” because she “began eating to change her body” after a male child she loved, plus several of his friends, raped her in a cabin in the woods when she was just
Being raped, she writes, prompted Gay to change her body because she wanted to create a barrier against the rest of the world. “I knew I wouldn’t be capable
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Praise
It turns out that when a wrenching past is confronted with wisdom and bravery, the outcome can be empathy 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. Craving is an marvelous achievement in more ways than I can count.
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth and Bel Canto
At its simplest, it’s a memoir about being chubby — 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.
New York Times
Wrenching, deeply moving. . . a memoir that’s so courageous, so raw, it feels as if [Gay]’s entrusting you with her soul
Seattle Times
Gay turns to memoir in this powerful reflection on her childhood traumas…Timely and resonant, you can
Goodreads: Hunger
Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Feminism
Rating: ★★★★★At the begin of every year, I always say to myself that this is going to be the year you read more Non-Fiction. I think I&#;ve been saying this for the past three years now and the most I manage 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 command for it to maintain my attention. I honestly have nothing against NF and I honestly hope that it wasn&#;t so difficult for me to focus, but my intellect 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 creator of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of nourishment, weight, self-image, and education how to feed your hunger while taking protect 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