The fruit of my gossipy, haughty, anxious crop induced profound anxiety attacks at age 16 and led to an excruciating break-up at age 17. The years most worthy of God's grace in my life, yet devoid of it.
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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. An adeptness in gossip, an air of superiority, and a precarious self-esteem combined to yield the most difficult years of my life. 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. 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 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. The author, whose much-celebrated works, Bad Feminist (2014) and Difficult Women (2017) made her a hero for.
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Roxane Gay has a knack for turning uncomfortable truths into necessary reading. I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” Hunger by Roxane Gay is the story of Gay's body and how her life has shaped who she is both physically and mentally. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I don’t think I gained weight to protect myself from men per say as I always relished in the attention (after being raped and sexually assaulted many times). 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 b.
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Not finished yet but I find myself relating to some of the themes.
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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. Has anyone read Roxane Gay’s book Hunger I am currently reading it.