In this intimate and searing memoir, the New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls wildly undisciplined. But hope is present in her life, in tiny glowing balls that remind her she is not totally in darkness: she is loved, her work is affecting lives, she is seeking the geographic place her heart most wants to call “home.” For this reason, the fact of its clear-eyed and difficult truthfulness, I believe this book will do more for more people than a truckload of all those happy ending books could ever do. I was trapped in my body, one I made but barely recognized or understood but of my own making. She isn’t afraid to admit the story is ongoing.
I like how Gay, in a world that adores happy endings and experiences neatly dissected for meaning, “went there,” showing the pain and frustrations she continues to endure. In Vox, Constance Grady described Hunger as 'an intimate and vulnerable memoir, one that takes its readers into dark and uncomfortable places. Here I am showing you the ferocity of my hunger.” I admire this stance. The tension is the push and pull between strength and vulnerability, courage and fear, reality and illusion, knowledge and confusion. 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.
As a woman who describes her own body as wildly undisciplined, Roxane understands the tension between. “I don’t know how I let things get so out of control, but I do.” These words, repeated a few times in Roxane Gay’s memoir, hold the tension of this important work. Hunger: a memoir of (my) body (Audio CD) Description.
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