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Goodreads: Hunger
Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Feminism
Rating: ★★★★★
At the originate of every year, I always say to myself that this is going to be the year you read more Non-Fiction. I think I&#;ve been saying this for the past three years now and the most I manage to read is still about NF books. It&#;s not that I don&#;t like NF, I just have a wildly wandering mind, and the writing needs to flow like fiction in direct for it to retain my attention. I honestly have nothing against NF and I honestly aspire that it wasn&#;t so difficult for me to focus, but my brain is definitely less keen on &#;facts and figures&#; and more on using my imagination. Hunger was my first NF for and I swear, if all NF could be this immersive, I would likely never stop reading it.
From the bestselling creator of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of diet, weight, self-image, and study how to feed your hunger while taking protect of yourself. In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, u Gay exposes her life with an unflinching honesty that – ultimately – helps to provide salvation, which is all the more remarkable given that Hunger revolves around a shocking incident Gay spent decades trying to suppress. Photo credit: Eva Blue She writes to share the story of her body – specifically, how her body changed from organism that of an average year-old teen to one that, at its heaviest, weighed pounds. She is explicit about the emotional – and physical – pain of living in the planet when you are “super morbidly obese”, according to your body mass index. She wound up as a “woman of size” because she “began eating to change her body” after a male child she loved, plus several of his friends, raped her in a cabin in the woods when she was just Being raped, she writes, prompted Gay to transform her body because she wanted to create a barrier against the relax of the planet. “I knew I wouldn’t be qualified From the New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist, a searingly honest memoir of nourishment, 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 big, 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 connection and sensitivity about food and body, using her own passionate and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our joint anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a female 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 - IndieBound, Powell&#;s Metropolis of Books, iBooks, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Amazon 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 incredible achievement in more ways than I can count. At its simplest, it’s a memoir about entity 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. Wrenching, deeply moving. . . a memoir that’s so bold, so raw, it feels as if [Gay]’s entrusting you with her soul Gay turns to memoir in this powerful reflection on her childhood traumas…Timely and resonant, you can
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