Hunger Lib/E : A Memoir of (My) Body (CD-Audio)

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Wow! This memoir is fascinating. Roxane Gay tells her story in a way that I feel like I know her. She somehow takes the tragedies in her life and tells how she felt at the time and how if affects her now. She is an amazing writer and an even more amazing person. I'm glad she had the courage to te...

from readingover50

This book was great. So many passages that really resonated with me. Roxane's experiences were similar yet very different to mine. I think so many people can read her book and feel that there is someone out there who understands them. So many times I start a memoir that is recommended, only to fi...

from debbiesbooknook

My Takeaway"This is a memoir of (my) body because, more often than not, stories of bodies like mine are ignored or dismissed or derided. People see bodies like mine and make their assumptions. They think they know the why of my body. They do not."Roxane Gay, HungerHunger was raw, unfiltered, expl...

from Jan.Coco.Day

What evidence can there be after a trauma? Bodies carry the evidence. Gay's prose style is clipped and curt. She holds the reader at a defensive distance--keeps her own story close, revealing the facts of her trauma at her own pace as the growing fact of her body outpaces her control. This story ...

from wellreadcatlady

Hunger is so much more than a book about weight. Roxane Gay explains what her body went through, what her mind went through, and how that lead to her being here today. She is very vulnerable and I feel like it is a different side of her when compared to her voice in Bad Feminist, which I loved, b...