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Hunger

by Roxane Gay · 2017

Biography & Memoir · ranked #16 in category

Gay writes about her body — its size, its history, the assault that changed her relationship to it and what her body has meant to her and to others across her life. Her memoir is one of the most formally and emotionally direct accounts of living in a body that culture treats as wrong, and of eating as a way of managing what cannot otherwise be managed.

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Category
Biography & Memoir
First published
2017 · 2010s
Author
Roxane Gay
Standing
Essential Read

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