From the New York Times bestselling writer 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 expectations that easily made myself big, my body would be safe and sound. I buried the girl I had been because she went into all kinds of problems. I tried to remove every memory space of her, but she actually is still there, someplace . . I was trapped in my own body, one that I barely known or understood, but at least I about Craving for food: A Memoir of (My) Body was secure.”

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 means of discovering our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who explains 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 assault that acted being a turning stage in her youthful life-and brings visitors along on her behalf journey to understand and eventually save herself.

Using 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 give food to your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that may love and become loved-in a time when the larger you are, the smaller your globe becomes.