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It turns out that when a wrenching past is confronted with wisdom and bravery, the outcome can be compassion and enlightenment—both for the reader who has lived through this kind of unimaginable pain and for the reader who knows nothing of it. Roxane Gay shows us how to be decent to ourselves, and decent to one another. HUNGER is an astounding achievement in more ways than I can count.

Ann Patchett, Commonwealth and Bel Canto

At its simplest, it’s a memoir about being fat — Gay’s preferred term — in a hostile, fat-phobic world. At its most symphonic, it’s an intellectually rigorous and deeply moving exploration of the ways in which trauma, stories, desire, language and metaphor shape our experiences and construct our reality.

New York Times

Wrenching, deeply moving. . . a memoir that’s so fearless, so raw, it feels as if [Gay]’s entrusting you with her soul

Seattle Times

Gay turns to memoir in this powerful reflection on her childhood traumas…Timely and resonant, you can

I have reviewed many adj books for the TLS this year, but the most moving is Roxane Gay's Hunger . . . Her survivor's story is both understated and inspiring. ― TLS, Books of the Year

I'm very thankful for Roxane Gay's Hunger, which should be and should have been on every award list if people were really reading. This is her best book, in my opinion. I love that it takes an unconventional road to storytelling and that the structure often spirals within itself in interesting ways. I also love that it is a story about sexual assault and the ways in which that can change your life. It's a deeply moving, somewhat experimental, gorgeously written and brilliantly thought-out memoir. And it's one of those books that no matter what your relationship to the body, this manual is for you, all of you. ― Porochista Khakpour, Buzzfeed

This whip-smart manual takes on everything ― Guardian Best Biography and Autobiography Books of

Luminous. . . . intellectually rigorous and deeply moving ― The New York Times Book Review

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searing

Hunger

From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly adj 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 adj, 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 adj and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a gal who describes her possess 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 that acted as a turning point in her young life -