{"product_id":"hunger-a-memoir-of-my-body-9780062420718","title":"Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eBad Feminist\u003c\/em\u003e: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\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\/em\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 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 \u003cem\u003eHunger, \u003c\/em\u003e 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.\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 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGay, Roxane:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eRoxane Gay is the author of the essay collection \u003cem\u003eBad Feminist\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestseller; the novel \u003cem\u003eAn Untamed State\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003ea finalist for the Dayton Peace Prize; the memoir \u003cem\u003eHunger\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestseller and received a National Book Critics Circle citation; and the short story collections \u003cem\u003eDifficult Women \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAyiti\u003c\/em\u003e. A contributing opinion writer to the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, she has also written for \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSalon\u003c\/em\u003e. Her fiction has also been selected for \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2012\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Mystery Stories 2014\u003c\/em\u003e, and other anthologies. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eWorld of Wakanda \u003c\/em\u003efor Marvel. She lives in Lafayette, Indiana, and sometimes Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50581421097234,"sku":"9780062420718","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0a6b2132-80ff-49ab-926f-f0c34045ff08.jpg?v=1732015216","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hunger-a-memoir-of-my-body-9780062420718","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}