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. Genres: Biography, Feminism, Memoir, Non-Fiction Published by HarperCollins on June 13, 2017
#ROXANE GAY HUNGER BOOK TOUR FULL#
I do struggle with memoirs because you are only hearing one person’s experience rather than the full picture.Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
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I appreciated the discussion of cultural awareness and how we view overweight people.When the conference attendee didn’t realize she was the keynote speaker and she assumed he couldn’t believe someone who looked like her would be the keynote….was that the case or did he honestly just not know what she looked like? It bothered me. The repetition got to me- I didn’t like it.I started to dread picking it up again because it was just too sad. I didn’t love it because it just bummed me out.We have to start with loving ourselves- that’s where it all begins. I wish she could see herself and love herself the way others do. What a shame that she didn’t tell her parents. I had high expectations but the writing was boring to me.A little disappointed…I didn’t think it was written at a high level like I had expected. I like how she slowly opened up more and more and we got to know her better throughout the book. I’m a closed off person, so the fact that she could be so open and honest was fascinating to me. So courageous of her to write this and share her story.I wasn’t bothered by the repetition- it made me feel like those words were especially important.Really a commentary on how we as a society look right through fat people.I would love to know her and talk to her. Someone I would want to know and be friends with. I found her (Roxane Gay) to be incredibly likeable.Here are some of the initial comments readers made while discussing this month’s title: We had a lively discussion of Hunger with seven thumbs up votes, three so-so, and three thumbs down.
#ROXANE GAY HUNGER BOOK TOUR HOW TO#
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. 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.
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I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.”
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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. In December, Fixed on Fiction met to discuss Hunger by Roxane Gay-įrom 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.