Saturday Book Club: “Hunger” by Roxane Gay
'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 had been 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 in my body, one I made but barely recognized or understood. I was miserable, but I was safe.' In this memoir, ... bestselling author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts a critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties--including the act of violence that was a turning point in her young life--and brings readers into the present and the realities of her daily life. With candor, vulnerability, and authority , Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen.