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. 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. From there I have followed her book tours, writing engagements. I got to know her work through her 2015 publication, Bad Feminist. She is a frequent commentator on pop culture and has become a driving force in creating a literary world enriched with inclusion. Subtitled, A Memoir of (My) Body, the book describes the connections between body image, sexual violence, gender, and race as related through the prism of Gays own life experiences and traumas. A life of 'hunger' Roxane Gay is not shy about her feelings, at least not in writing. 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. Hunger (2017) is a memoir by the American writer, Roxane Gay. At its simplest, it’s a memoir about being fat Gay’s preferred term in a hostile, fat-phobic world. Ann Patchett, Commonwealth and Bel Canto. HUNGER is an amazing achievement in more ways than I can count. Retrouvez Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body et des millions de livres en stock sur.
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. Roxane Gay shows us how to be decent to ourselves, and decent to one another.
Louis Post-Dispatch PopSugar BookRiot Library Journal Booklist Kirkus Reviews Shelf Awareness National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistĪ best book of 2017: Time NPR People Elle The Washington Post The Los Angeles Times The Chicago Tribune Newsday St. All four of Gays books, including Ayiti (2011), An Untamed State (2014), Bad Feminist (2014) and Hunger (2016) have over a four star rating on the readers.