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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