Hunger

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"It turns out that when a wrenching past is confronted with wisdom and bravery, the outcome can be compassion and enhghtenment—both for the reader who has hved 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 amazing achievement in more ways than I can count."
-ANN PATCHETT
"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 had been 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 I made but barely recognized or understood. I was miserable, but I was safe."
In this intimate and searing memoir, the New York Times bestselUng author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of Uving in a body that she calls "wildly undisciplined." She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and... Tovább

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"It turns out that when a wrenching past is confronted with wisdom and bravery, the outcome can be compassion and enhghtenment—both for the reader who has hved 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 amazing achievement in more ways than I can count."
-ANN PATCHETT
"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 had been 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 I made but barely recognized or understood. I was miserable, but I was safe."
In this intimate and searing memoir, the New York Times bestselUng author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of Uving in a body that she calls "wildly undisciplined." She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties—including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point in her young life—and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life.
With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and it tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be. Vissza