"Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body" by Roxane Gay

In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles with body image and mental health as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. 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. In Hunger, she explores her past―including the devastating act of violence and childhood trauma that acted as a turning point in her young life―and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.

With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to find self-discovery and learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved―in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.

This is not a story of triumph. It is the story of a body, a life, and a hunger that demands to be heard.

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