{"product_id":"hunger-a-memoir-of-my-body","title":"Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest and confessional memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 with body image and mental health 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 and childhood trauma that acted as a turning point in her young life--and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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 find self-discovery and 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a story of triumph. It is the story of a body, a life, and a hunger that demands to be heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Memoir of the Body: \u003c\/b\u003e Goes beyond a simple weight-loss narrative to explore one woman's intensely personal and psychological struggle with food, consumption, and health.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eUnflinching Honesty: \u003c\/b\u003e With bracing candor, Gay reflects on the devastating act of violence that became a turning point in her life and shaped her relationship with her body for decades.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFeminist Cultural Criticism: \u003c\/b\u003e A vital examination of what it means to be overweight and unseen in a culture obsessed with appearance and conformity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBody Image and Identity: \u003c\/b\u003e Navigates the profound tension between desire and denial, self-comfort and self-care, and the ongoing journey to feed a hunger that is more than physical.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947884642535,"sku":"9780062420718","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_3bad25f4-bf57-407e-8a34-fe7a0be2a6ed.jpg?v=1775502915","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/hunger-a-memoir-of-my-body","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}