Cover of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls ‘wildly undisciplined. She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties -- including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point at age 12 -- and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With candor, vulnerability, and authority, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen.

Citations

Gay, Roxane. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. New York: Harper, 2017.