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First edition. |
| Description |
306 pages ; 22 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Americans lcdgt |
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Overweight people lcdgt |
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Haitian Americans lcdgt |
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African Americans lcdgt |
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Illinoisians lcdgt |
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Women lcdgt |
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University and college faculty members lcdgt |
| Indexed In: |
Junior Library Guild |
| Summary |
"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. 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 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. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn't yet been told but needs to be"--Publisher's description |
| Audience |
Grades 11 & up. |
| Awards |
A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG) |
| Subject |
Gay, Roxane.
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Body image.
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Discrimination against overweight persons -- United States.
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Eating disorders -- Biography.
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Sexually abused children -- Mental health.
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Overweight women -- Biography.
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Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Biography.
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Gay, Roxane.
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Body image.
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Discrimination against overweight persons -- United States.
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Eating disorders.
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Overweight women -- Biography.
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African American women -- Biography.
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Gay, Roxane.
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Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Biography.
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Eating disorders -- Biography.
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African American women -- Biography.
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Autobiographies.
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Overweight women -- Biography.
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Sexually abused children -- Mental health.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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| Added Title |
Memoir of (my) body |
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Memoir of my body |
| ISBN |
9780062362599 (hardcover) |
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0062362593 (hardcover) |
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9780062569714 (paperback) |
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0062569716 (paperback) |
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9780062747914 (BAM signed edition) |
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9780062747891 (B & N signed edition) |
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9780062792174 (Indigo signed edition) |
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9780062569714 (international edition) |
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