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Anyone who has a body should read this book.” - Isaac Fitzgerald on the Today show “Unforgettable. Repetitive and recursive, it propels the reader forward with unstoppable force.” - Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers “This is the book to read this summer. Gay has a vivid, telegraphic writing style, which serves her well. It is a thing of raw beauty.” - USA Today “Powerful.
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intellectually rigorous and deeply moving.” - The New York Times Book Review “Her spare prose, written with a raw grace, heightens the emotional resonance of her story, making each observation sharper, each revelation more riveting. There is an incantatory element of repetition to “Hunger”: The very short chapters scallop over the reader like waves.” - Newsday “Luminous. Nothing seems gratuitous a lot seems brave. “Hunger,” like Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me,” interrogates the fortunes of black bodies in public spaces. We are all better for having you do so in the same ferociously honest fashion that you have written this book.” - Los Angeles Times “Searing, smart, readable. And on nearly every page, Gay’s raw, powerful prose plants a flag, facing down decades of shame and self-loathing by reclaiming the body she never should have had to lose.” - Entertainment Weekly “Bracingly vivid. Poignantly told.” - New Republic “The book’s short, sharp chapters come alive in vivid personal anecdotes. At its best, it affords women, in particular, something so many other accounts deny them-the right to take up space they are entitled to, and to define what that means.” - Atlantic “A work of staggering honesty. “A gripping book, with vivid details that linger long after its pages stop. Erin Kodicek, The Amazon Book Review -This text refers to the hardcover edition. And through Gay’s experience we learn one of lessons she eventually did, that “all of us have to be more considerate of the realities of the bodies of others,” and more accepting of our own. It’s a story not easily told, but the telling set her free. In her brutally honest and brave memoir Hunger, Gay recounts a childhood sexual assault that led her to purposely gain weight in order to be unseen and therefore “safe.” Gay warns at the beginning of the book that if you’re looking for a triumphant weight loss memoir, this is not it. The rest risk being in shadow, which is exactly where Roxane Gay wanted to be. For those that fit that (ever narrowing) bill, congratulations! Clothes are designed to fit you, kale growers love you, and so does society. We obsess over having too much, too little (to a lesser degree) we use terms like stealing a bite and guilty pleasure-things that evoke shame, and are meant to keep our bodies in line. 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.Īn Amazon Best Book of June 2017: If you’re a woman in America, chances are, no matter your size, you probably have a somewhat fetishistic relationship with food. 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.
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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. I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.' 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 tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. 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.