I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe.
Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2017, NonfictionĢ017 Goodreads Choice Award, Best Memoir & AutobiographyĪmazon. Roxane Gay 4.18 94,755 ratings10,856 reviews From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2017, Memoirsīooklist 2017 Top of the List, Editor’s Choice, Adult Nonfiction The Washington Post Books We Love So Far in 2017Īndrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence, 2018 Longlist, Nonfiction From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger.
Shelf Awareness 2017 Best Books of the Year, Nonfiction It’s effective at showing the difficulty of this book’s contents. Each chapter is written like flash fiction (about 1-4 pages), but it also feels like she gets writing, is ashamed of her story, and then starts again. Hunger chronicles the various ways in which Gay sought to deal with the trauma of being. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay was published on June 13th by Harper Collins. 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 Gay's own life experiences and traumas.
Hardcover edition Publisher HarperCollins Imprint Harper ISBN 9780062362599 Awards and Honors Booklist Top 10 Diverse Nonfiction 2018ALA 2018 Notable Book Lists, NonfictionĢ017 National Book Critics Circle Finalist, Autobiography Hunger (2017) is a memoir by the American writer, Roxane Gay.