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The whole book is about Gay’s body and how she and others perceive and respond to it. The topics discussed are not always pleasant or easy but this brilliant woman’s thoughts are so important and completely worth listening too. Hunger is one of the most intimately personal books I have ever read – Gay is unflinchingly honest about herself and others which makes the book at times a pretty tough read. I think it is so much more rewarding to listen to the author read their own work especially when the novel is a memoir and such an incredibly personal one at that. Then throughout the end of December and start of January I listened to the audiobook of Hunger which is narrated by Gay herself. I read her novel ‘An Untamed State’ and thought it was fantastic. Review : I have only started working my way through Roxane Gay’s work in the past few months. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life-and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. 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. Title : Hunger – A Memoir of (My) Body Author : Roxane Gay Publisher : Little Brown Summary from Publisher : New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health.