About the Book: Hunger: Memoir of (My) Body
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 bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and
sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological
struggles as a