Hunger roxane gay audiobook

There's no better person to narrate this audio than Roxane Gay herself. Her comfort, consistent inflections are juxtaposed with the content of the audiobook, which unfolds her conflicts about her body, both from external and internal perspectives. Her narration is filled with careful intentions--as if every single word stated and not stated explains her existence spatially. She analyzes terms like "obese" and being a "victim" versus a "survivor" of rape. She is repetitive in her sharing. And it's painful to listen to but necessary. She creates safe spaces the best way she knows how--unhealthy or not. Most of all, her story is felt because content and narration explore the concept of un/control of the body, self, and existence through her voice. T.E.C. © AudioFile , Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE ]

"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 was 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 that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe." New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about sustenance and bodies, using her own passionate and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her hold body as "wildly undisciplined," Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Starvation, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties-including the devastating act of abuse that acted as a turning indicate in her immature life-and brings readers into the introduce and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her