“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I became big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she faced all kinds of problems. I tried to eliminate every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere... I was trapped in my body, a body that barely recognition or understood, but at least I was safe.”

The 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 to explore our shared anxieties about pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care.

In “Hunger,” she takes an insightful and critical look at her childhood, adolescence, and twenties, including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point in her young life, and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With the forthright honesty, 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. “Hunger” is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, telling a story that hasn’t yet been told but needs to be.

Pages: 288, Publication Year: 0612, Dimensions: 12.6x12.6cm