Hunger, a memoir of (my) body, Roxane Gay
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Hunger, a memoir of (my) body, Roxane Gay
Language
eng
resource.biographical
individual biography
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Hunger
Responsibility statement
Roxane Gay
Sub title
a memoir of (my) body
Summary
Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. In Hunger she casts a critical eye on her childhood, teens and twenties, including an act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life. Gay explores what is means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen
Target audience
adult
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