Roxane gay hunger a memoir of my body
Hunger
From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly trustworthy memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your appetite while taking care of yourself.
"I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself enormous, 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 acknowledged 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 sentimental and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a girl who describes her hold 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 listeners along on her journey to understand and ultimately rescue herself.
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Praise
It turns out that when a wrenching past is confronted with wisdom and bravery, the outcome can be compassion and enlightenment—both for the reader who has lived through this kind of unimaginable pain and for the reader who knows nothing of it. Roxane Gay shows us how to be decent to ourselves, and decent to one another. HUNGER is an astounding achievement in more ways than I can count.
Ann Patchett, Commonwealth and Bel Canto
At its simplest, it’s a memoir about creature fat — Gay’s preferred term — in a hostile, fat-phobic world. At its most symphonic, it’s an intellectually rigorous and deeply moving exploration of the ways in which trauma, stories, desire, language and metaphor shape our experiences and construct our reality.
New York Times
Wrenching, deeply moving. . . a memoir that’s so valiant, so raw, it feels as if [Gay]’s entrusting you with her soul
Seattle Times
Gay turns to memoir in this powerful reflection on her childhood traumas…Timely and resonant, you can be sure that Appetite will touch a nerve, as so much of Roxane Gay’s writing does.
Newsday
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Is there anything Roxane Gay can’t do?? Let’s just list some of the highlights of this amazing woman:
You wonder how a woman like that has time to perform all of this and still travel around the country, promoting her recent book, Hunger: A memoir of (my) body. Male lover has been open about her life and experiences, and in her fresh book, she tackles a subject she has often written about intimately on her tumblr blog. Her horrific sexual assault at age 12 has been a big influence on her work over the years, and this part of her past is discussed in this publication, with regards to self-image and self-care: “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 commended or understood, but at least I was safe.” People make assumptions and are often cruel towards people of a certain weight, but more than that, Gay confronts the reality of being a fat person in today’s society, for examp
Hunger Quotes
“There is an anxiety in being yourself, though. There is the haunting question of "What if?" always lingering. What if who I am will never be enough? What if I will never be right enough for someone?”
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“I buried the young woman I had been because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. She is still small and scared and ashamed, and perhaps I am writing my way back to her, trying to tell her everything she needs to hear.”
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“As a woman, as a overweight woman, I am not supposed to take up space. And yet, as a feminist, I am encouraged to believe I can take up territory. I live in a contradictory space where I should try to get up space but not too much of it, and not in the wrong way, where the wrong way is any way where my body is concerned.”
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“In yet another commercial, Oprah somberly says, “Inside every overweight woman is a woman she knows she can be.” This is a popular notion, the idea that the
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