The New York Times Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Lambda Literary Award winner From Roxane Gay the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist a memoir in weight about eating healthier finding a tolerable form of exercise and exploring what it means to learn in the middle of your life how to take care of yourself and how to feed your hunger. 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 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 Hunger she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood teens and twenties--including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life--and brings readers into the present and the realities pains and joys of her daily life. With the bracing candor vulnerability and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers and tells a story that hasn t yet been told but needs to be.