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From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how 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 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.”
In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, 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 explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.
With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed 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 bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.
© 2017 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780062470256
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 13 juni 2017
4.3
Biografieën
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how 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 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.”
In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, 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 explores her past—including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life—and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.
With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed 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 bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.
© 2017 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780062470256
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 13 juni 2017
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Petra
1 jun 2023
Zo negatief, zoveel beklag en geen constructieve bijdrage.
Agnes
12 okt 2022
Reading this book has brought me nothing. It is an endless complaint against society and people.
null
23 jun 2017
Insightful, unprecedented, bare.
Marieke
30 sep 2020
I always love it when authors read their own work. Gay does it in what appears to me as a somewhat detached way but still manages to pull you in as a listener.
Cheryl
10 feb 2023
Wauw
Ferdy
8 okt 2022
De indringende beschrijving van slachtofferschap is bij vlagen oncomfortabel om te lezen. Misschien kenmerkt dit de worsteling van Roxane om dit verhaal naar buiten te brengen. Een krachtig statement van de manier waarop trauma het lijf en een leven kan beheersen.
Mirjam
17 mei 2021
Geeft een goed inzicht in het leven met trauma, sexueel geweld en extreem overgewicht. Het stelt thema's aan de kaak als: feminisme, masculiniteit, racisme en ableism.
Lisa
2 jun 2022
This author and I share almost everything in common except our weight. I’m thankful she wrote it. 
Veroniek
17 mei 2020
Must Read. Niet altijd prettig om het leed te horen, maar dat is het doel ook niet. Verhelderend. Raak. Ik wist dat zij docente is in de literatuur en dat is merkbaar. Dit is een erg goede schrijfster
Mar
13 sep 2022
Brave woman!
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