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Hunger by Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay's intimate, raw and honest account of her personal experience of using food as a way to find solace following a devastating act of violence when she was aged just 12.

Hunger written and read by Roxane Gay is the novelist and cultural critic's memoir of her body. Her account is intimate, raw and honest and is her personal experience of using food as a way to find solace following a devastating act of violence when she was aged just 12. Her own story is interwoven with cultural analysis of what it means to be overweight in contemporary society.

Photo credit:Jay Grabiec

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