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Can I read Hunger : a Memoir of (My) Body on EtoBox?
Hunger : a Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay; HarperCollins Publishers is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Hunger : a Memoir of (My) Body about?
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. 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 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. 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."...a bracingly vivid account of how intellect, emotion and physicality speak to each other and work in tireless tandem to not just survive unspeakable hurt, but to create a life worth living and celebrating... Her candour and self-awareness are nec
Who reads Hunger : a Memoir of (My) Body?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Roxane Gay; HarperCollins Publishers
- Publisher
- Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062792174
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.31 / 5 (159 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14