Hunger

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From the 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 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 recognized 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 emotional and psychological struggles 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 own past including the devastating act of violence 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 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. New Read [ Hunger ] By [ Roxane Gay ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr People see bodies like mine and make their assumptions They think they know the why of my body They do not This is not a story of triumph, but this is a story that demands to be told and deserves to be heard. How do I even begin If I could give this book a hundred stars, I would And no, not just because it is important and it is heartbreaking which it is both but because Gay is one of the best writers I ve ever known The difficulty was deciding how to use quotes without quoting the wh People see bodies like mine and make their assumptions They think they know the why of my body They do not This is not a story of triumph, but this is a story that demands to be told and deserves to be heard. How do I even begin If I could give this book a hundred stars, I would And no, not just because it is important and it is heartbreaking which it is both b...I haven t written this yet but it will be okay Food is delicious UPDATE I have created a Word File entitled Hunger_Book I have copied and pasted many Tumblr entries into this file along with some ideas as to how to give the book shape Food is still delicious UPDATE 2 This book is still in p...Beautifully written.Tender, poignant and courageous.Heartfelt, heartbreaking and brave.Clearly, Roxanne s book deals with a dark, difficult and important subject I can t imagine anyonesuited to explore what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen Hunger is a story that needed to be written Roxane Gay says. writing this book is the most difficult thing I ve ever done Too lay myself so vulnerable has not been an easy thing Beaut...Really torn about this one On the one hand, this is an amazingly honest account of Roxane Gay s life with an unruly body, as she calls it, which developed after she was gang raped at 12 She ate and ate so that she could get big enough to build a fortress around herself.On the other hand, the book fell short for me It was repetitive, for one, although I do think some of the repetition was purposeful a stylistic choice The language, to me, was dull Plus there was nothing new on the subject o Really torn about this one On the one hand, this is an amazingly honest account of Roxane Gay s life with an unruly body, as she calls it, which developed after she was gang raped at 12 She ate and ate so that she could...I cannot jump on the bandwagon of this being a wonderful and empowering book.Sorry folks but as Ms Gay continues to blame the world for her unhappiness there is just no chance for peace I wish her the very best but I would not recommend this to anybody.Listening to Roxanne Gay read her memoir, Hunger, was like listening to a close friend divulging some of her most painful and intimate memories, thoughts and feelings if that friend also happened to be a wickedly good writer It was uncomfortable, heartbreaking and awe inspiring I ve read other excellent books by women who talk about their own and society s reactions to their large bodies, but Hunger is in its own class so smart and real and infinitely nuanced I can t think of anything m Listening to Roxanne Gay read her memoir, Hunger, was like listening to a close friend divulging some of her most painful and intimate memories, thoughts and feelings if that friend also happened to be a wickedly good writer It was uncomfortable, heartbreaking and awe inspiring I ve read other...The thing I always admire about Roxane Gay s writing, even when it makes me uncomfortable, is her ability to tackle issues head on, with unflinching honesty She may have hesitated, but you never see it on the page.This very open memoir about hunger and size is powerful This is Roxane Gay s experience, laid bare I can t imagine what it took for her to get all of these thoughts on the page There is a bit of repetition or overlap between the tiny chapters, but this is reflective of the daily li The thing I always admire about Roxane Gay s writing, even when it makes me uncomfortable, is her ability to tackle issues head on, with unflinching honesty She may have hesitated, but you never see it on the page.This very open memoir about hunger and size is powerful This is Roxane Gay s experience, laid bare I can t imagine what it took for her to get all of these thoughts on the page There is a bit of repetition or overlap between the tiny chapters, but this is reflective of the daily life of living the experience of being large in the world The constant confrontations of well meaning but damaging family, possibly well intentioned but invasive strangers, the blindness of the medical profession seeing obesity first , the connection between trauma and the protection of size, the damper that size puts on social life and travel and how it is too difficult to explain it to friends, leading to all sorts of relat...I want to give this a million stars I want to buy every one of you reading this a copy WOW.TW Rape, anorexia bulimia, fatphobiaThis doesn t speak exactly to my experiences and I wouldn t expect it to because Roxane and I have very different experiences and personalities but regardless, this is the most validating book I ve read to date about being fat It might be the only book I ve read about being heavy that confirms that I can be happy with myself just for me, not only when a guy loves me I want to give this a million stars I want to buy every one of you reading this a copy WOW.TW Rape, anorexia bulimia, fatphobiaThis doesn t speak exactly to my experiences and I wouldn t expect it to because Roxane and I have very different experiences and personalities but regardless, this is the most validating book I ve read to date about b...I finished Hunger five hours ago and still feel such overwhelming gratitude for Roxane Gay s writing this memoir is my favorite 2017 read by far and one of those rare works that makes me so thankful for my ability to read at all Hunger focuses on Gay s fatness, how being fat has affected her life in so many negative and unfair ways, and the rape she experienced as a twelve year old that precipitated her weight gain She has an enormous talent for confronting complex, ugly truths in her writing I finished Hunger five hours ago and still feel such overwhelming gratitude for Roxane Gay s writing this memoir is my favorite 2017 read by far and one of those rare works that makes me so thankful for my ability to read at all Hunger focuses on Gay s fatn...This is the memoir I will compare all other memoirs against Roxane Gay has written one hell of a perfect book If I hadn t been a fan before, I would for sure be one now Not only is this an honest, unflinching look at herself and her life and her choices, it is also stylistically beautiful in a way most books fiction or non fiction never achieve.Roxane Gay tells, quite literally, the story of her body She is completely and brutally honest in her approach and does not mince her words when de This is the memoir I will compare all other memoirs against Roxane Gay has written one hell of a perfect book If I hadn t been a fan before, I would for sure be one now Not only is this an honest, unflinching look at herself and her life and her choices, it is also stylistically beautiful in a way most books fiction or non fiction never achieve.Roxane Gay tells, quite literally, the story of her body She is completely and brutally honest in her approach and does not mince her words when describing the negative influence her unruly body has on her life and the way people treat her because of it She describes being hypervisible and invisible at the same time she shows the way she is ...

Hunger
  • English
  • 02 August 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 306 pages
  • 0062362593
  • Roxane Gay
  • Hunger