Roxane gay hunger a memoir of my body

It turns out that when a wrenching past is confronted with wisdom and bravery, the outcome can be compassion 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. HUNGER is an astounding achievement in more ways than I can count.

Ann Patchett, Commonwealth and Bel Canto

At its simplest, it’s a memoir about organism fat — 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, desire, language and metaphor shape our experiences and construct our reality.

New York Times

Wrenching, deeply moving. . . a memoir that’s so bold, 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

Hunger Quotes

“There is an anxiety in being yourself, though. There is the haunting question of "What if?" always lingering. What if who I am will never be enough? What if I will never be right enough for someone?”
&#; Roxane Queer , Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

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“I buried the girl I had been because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. She is still compact and scared and ashamed, and perhaps I am writing my way help to her, trying to tell her everything she needs to hear.”
&#; Roxane Queer , Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

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“As a lady, as a heavy woman, I am not supposed to take up vacuum. And yet, as a feminist, I am encouraged to believe I can take up territory. I live in a contradictory cosmos where I should try to seize up space but not too much of it, and not in the wrong way, where the wrong way is any way where my body is concerned.”
&#; Roxane Same-sex attracted, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

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“In yet another commercial, Oprah somberly says, “Inside

Hunger

From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly honest memoir of sustenance, 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 attachment and sensitivity about food and body, using her own sentimental and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our common anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a lady 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 -