An edition of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2016)

Hunger

a memoir of (my) body

1st ed.
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An edition of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (2016)

Hunger

a memoir of (my) body

1st ed.
  • 4.1 (8 ratings) ·
  • 56 Want to read
  • 9 Have read

“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 past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and 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 loved—in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.

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English
Pages
306

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Hunger: A Memoir of Body
Jun 12, 2018, Harper Perennial
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hunger a memoir of my body
May 23, 2017, harper audio
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Hunger: A Memoir of Body
2017, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Hunger: A Memoir of Body
2017-07-06, Corsair
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Hunger: A Memoir of Body
2017, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
in English
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Hunger: a memoir of (my) body
2017, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
in English - 1st ed.
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Hunger: A Memoir of Body
2016, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
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Hunger
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New York, NY

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Library of Congress
BF697.5.B63 G39 2017, BF697.5.B63G39 2017

The Physical Object

Pagination
306 pages ;
Number of pages
306

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Open Library
OL26363063M
Internet Archive
hungermemoirofmy00unse
ISBN 10
0062362593
ISBN 13
9780062362599
LCCN
2017431118
OCLC/WorldCat
918590664
Goodreads
26074156

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