Tuesday, June 13, 2017

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


Another memoir that I would like to read, however from what I can tell I am going to have to be in the right frame of mind to tackle this one. From the blurb and the few reviews that I have seen, Hunger is going to be a raw and uncomfortable read; which is what Roxane Gay is known for. 



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 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.

2 comments:

  1. idk....

    let us know what you think of it should you get to read it.

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    1. It'll be a little while. I gotta get my mind right to read this one!;)

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