In Hunger, New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay delivers a raw, unflinching memoir of food, trauma, and living in a body that doesn’t conform.
With searing honesty, Gay explores how a devastating act of violence shaped her relationship with her body, and how she used food to protect herself from the world. She reflects on the tension between self-comfort and self-care, and the complexity of existing in a society that punishes bodies it deems too much.
This isn’t a weight-loss journey—it’s a reckoning.
A bracing meditation on trauma, resilience, and self-worth, Hunger is a powerful testament to survival and a body reclaimed. It will challenge everything you think you know about shame, desire, and the simple, radical act of taking up space.
