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Hunger

A Memoir of Body
Pages
320
Published
2016
Language
English

Synopsis

Roxane Gay shares her deeply personal journey of navigating her relationship with food, her body, and the trauma that shaped her. In this powerful memoir, she explores the complexities of desire, self-care, and the struggle to find safety and love in a world that often judges larger bodies. Gay's honest and vulnerable account offers a profound look at what it means to truly nourish oneself, inside and out.

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About the author

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Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay's writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Harper's Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney's, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and New York Times bestselli...

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