This book is a powerful and courageous memoir that delves deep into the complexities of body image and self-acceptance. Roxane Gay's candid narrative allows readers to empathize with her struggles, while shedding light on societal expectations and the emotional toll they can take. Hunger is a must-read for anyone seeking a profound understanding of body positivity and the importance of self-love.

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• Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction (2017)
• National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2017)
• Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2018)
• Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Memoir & Autobiography (2017)
• Reading Women Award for Nonfiction (2017)
• Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize Nominee for Nonfiction Shortlist (2018)
• Litsy Award for Non-Fiction (2017)

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. 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.

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