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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.

From the New York Times 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.

Editions for Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body: (Hardcover published in ), (ebook published in ), (Kindle Edition published in ),

In her brutally honest and brave memoir Hunger, Gay recounts a childhood sexual assault that led her to purposely gain weight in order to be unseen and therefore “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.

From the New York Times 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.

“What does it say about our culture that the desire for weight loss is considered a default feature of womanhood?” ― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body.

Editions for Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body: (Hardcover published in ), (ebook published in ), (Kindle Edition published in ),