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Hunger
- A Memoir of (My) Body
- Narrated by: Roxane Gay
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
'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.'
New York Times best-selling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, 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 casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and 20s - including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life - and brings listeners into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life.
With the bracing candour, vulnerability and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers and tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be.
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- Wendy Hankin
- 29-11-19
Compelling and heartbreaking.
Loved it. Made me cry. I will be reading more of her work, very compelling.
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- Aleisha J Forde
- 31-01-19
Woman lead bare
Loved it, exceptional journey through her life thus far. Great purchase, was definitely not disappointed❤
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- Ms. F. Ford
- 06-09-18
Real, human and nuanced
An amazing but devastating book, Hunger faces some of the most complicated issues of our time - rape culture; sexism; fatphobia; racism etc. - but does so through a completely human story and through the author's lived experience. Roxane Gay has a phenomenally beautiful way of embodying, in her writing, that old feminist adage that the personal is political and it was particularly wonderful to hear the book narrated by Roxane herself. There was so much to think about in this amazing memoir but also, perhaps more importantly, so much to listen to, to feel, and to sit with. I really think everyone should read it.
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- Em Farrell
- 18-10-17
A memoir of a great mind and a traumatised body
Beautifully written, heart breaking, brave and honest. I felt privileged to hear her story. It felt so private, so intimate and so full of pain and courage and love and strength and hope.
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- Anna Berg
- 21-08-22
strong and relateable
i want to thank the author for laying out her life for all of us to share and mirror ourselves in. It is a horrific strong insight into how life in a womans body on planet earth can unfold. I find it educational and in some aspects relateable.
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- Rose
- 21-06-18
Superb. Harrowing in parts but worth it
Roxanne's narration was excellent. The book is funny in parts but although the tone wasn't grim, it's pretty heavy going. It's definitely helped me develop empathy with people of size, who previously i have barely given a second thought to. She writes beautifully.
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- Honeyx
- 24-08-20
Beautifully vulnerable, intellectual and funny
Paradoxically melancholy and humourous. Utterly vulnerable, honest, relatable, emotionally elegant, soft sledgehammer of a read
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- AnneDriscoll
- 09-03-18
Raw, brutality honest & painful to read.
Very difficult to listen to, the boys who raped Roxanne seemingly got away with their crime, they are oblivious to the continuing suffering of their victim as a result of their actions.
Roxanne was in a very dark place for much of her life, I was amazed at her self flagellation, the constant onslaught of hate towards herself & her body, her total lack of self esteem, I marvel that she survived. The book showed how cruel people can be & how sadistic they became when they sensed the weakness & neediness in her.
Although a very disturbing read this book has such raw honesty, is
well written & narrated & must read.
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- Bydand
- 13-05-21
Powerful story
The author became my friend, helped me to understand and to cope with many things in my life.
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- sandra
- 29-01-22
Gripping
As a fat woman I related to lots of this. Raw, real, riveting stuff.
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