Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Audiobook (Free)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how exactly to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.

“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 used to be because she went into all kinds of difficulty. I attempted to erase every memory space of her, but she actually is still there, someplace . . I was captured in my body, one that I barely acknowledged or understood, but at least I about Craving for food: A Memoir of (My) Body was safe.”

In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body system, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a way of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who represents her personal body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Craving for food, she explores her past-including the damaging act of assault that acted like a turning point in her young life-and brings visitors along on her journey to comprehend and eventually save herself.

With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have produced her probably one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what this means to learn to deal with yourself: how exactly to supply your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved-in a time when the larger you are, the smaller your globe becomes.