Blackstone Audio 9781504734417 Hunger - A Memoir Of My Body Audio Book

• ISBN-13   9780062470256 | 978-0-06-247025-6
• ISBN   0062470256 | 0-06-247025-6
• From the bestselling author of bad feminist a searingly honest memoir of food weight selfimage and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourselfI 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 In her phenomenally popular essays and longrunning 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 selfcomfort and selfcare In hunger she explores her own past including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life and brings listeners along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself 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 Features. Hunger a memoir of my body audiobookSpecifications. Format Digital Download CD MP3 CD. Category NonfictionBiography Autobiography. Author Roxane Gay. Run Time 597. Track. Edition English