Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Roxane Gay

nonfiction feminism memoir emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

320 pages | first published 2017

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“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 i...
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hopeful 18%
tense 10%
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