Hunger // A Memoir of (My) Body

New York Timesbestseller,National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist,Lambda Literary Award winner

A best book of 2017:Time NPR People ElleThe WashingtonPostThe Los AngelesTimes The ChicagoTribune NewsdaySt. Louis Post-Dispatch PopSugar BookRiotLibrary Journal Booklist Kirkus Reviews Shelf Awareness

New York Timesbestselling 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. 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. InHunger,she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twentiesincluding the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young lifeand brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life.

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.Hungeris a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasnt yet been told but needs to be.

• Item Weight:15.2 ounces
• Hardcover:320 pages
• ISBN-10:0062362593
• ISBN-13:9780062362599
• Product Dimensions:0.72 x 5.31 x 8 inches
• Publisher:Harper (June 13, 2017)
• Language:English