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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.With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved-in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body is a 2017 memoir by Roxane Gay, published on June 13, 2017, by HarperCollins in New York, New York. Her new memoir, 'Hunger,' is about being gang-raped when she was 12 and how that led to her becoming fat. Lets get back to my interview with Roxane Gay. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. Her new memoir is called 'Hunger.' Well be back after a break. 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 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. The popular Tumblr blogger and best-selling author of Bad Feminist explores the devastating act of violence that triggered her personal challenges with food and body image, sharing advice for caring for oneself and eating in healthful and satisfying ways. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. Continuing our Summer of Excerpts, this weeks episode features the audiobook of Hunger by Roxane Gay. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. Verdict: Gay calls this work “the most difficult writing experience of life” audiences are likely to find Hunger a difficult – yet rewarding – experience, as well.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.“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. After I was raped.” Weight protected her, until her corpulence became a “cage” from which Gay attempts to write herself free: “This is a book about learning … to allow myself to be seen and understood.” When I was 12 years old I was raped and then I ate and ate and ate to build my body into a fortress,' writes Roxane Gay in her candid memoir, Hunger. Until she wasn’t: “What you need to know is that my life is split in two … there is the before and after. She then proceeds to read two chapters from ‘Hunger A Memoir of (My) Body’ one about her hatred of exercise, and the other about googling and finding one of the men, who raped her, when she was only 12 years old. The daughter of Haitian immigrants who was raised upper-middle-class, Gay was smart, privileged, loved, and thin, like the rest of her family. Roxane Gay begins by reading a humorous piece about the legendary American television personality Mister Rogers (Fred Rogers, 1928-2003).
Gay stands 6’3″ at her heaviest, she weighed 577 pounds. She is also a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times (Wirecutters parent company). Roxane Gay is the author of the essay collection Bad Feminist, which was a New York Times bestseller the novel An Untamed State, a finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize the memoir Hunger, which was a New York Times bestseller and received a National Book Critics Circle citation and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores. “Every body has a story and a history,” Roxane Gay ( Bad Feminist, Difficult Women) begins. Roxane Gay is the author of Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, and Hunger. In Hunger, she explores her pastincluding the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young lifeand brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.
For such a vulnerable, raw memoir, no one but the author could voice the breathtaking revelations, brutal truths, and profound knowledge contained here.