Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn’t yet been told but needs to be. 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. Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, and many others.She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life-and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. 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. New York Times bestselling 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. Mae Hunger yn gofiant personol gan Roxane Gay, wedi’i ysgrifennu gyda sensitifrwydd am fwyd a’n cyrff, gan ddefnyddio ei brwydrau emosiynol a seicolegol ei hun fel ffordd o archwilio ein pryderon ynghylch a phleser, traul, ymddangosiad ac iechyd.
