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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body door Roxane…
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (editie 2017)

door Roxane Gay (Auteur)

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Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties -- including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point at age 12 -- and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With candor, vulnerability, and authority, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen.… (meer)
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Titel:Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Auteurs:Roxane Gay (Auteur)
Info:Harper (2017), 320 pages
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Trefwoorden:memoir, autobiography, feminism, medical memoir, WBI

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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body door Roxane Gay

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Had been wanting to read this book for a long time, and although I've heard Roxane talk about it in interviews and podcasts, and am used to her writing through her substak newstetter, newspaper columns and essays, but her writing in this book is achingly vulnerable. ( )
  Acia | Feb 15, 2024 |
Poignant, painful, perfect. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
I listened to this very well read/produced audiobook.

Gay's story is a nearly unbearable tale of being gang-raped as a child and what happened to her in the aftermath, mainly her becoming super morbidly obese. It is relentless in its close examination of the choices she has made, the things she had no control over, longing and loathing.

Gay is a brilliant writer, and this book is an important addition to the literature of "the body." ( )
  fmclellan | Jan 23, 2024 |
I have been reading Roxane Gay since she started writing her work advice column for the New York Times; I have been wanting to read her books for about that long but Hunger is the first I have read. It is a devastating account of her life and the pain she has endured. It is also extraordinarily well written and discrete while being brutally honest. ( )
  nmele | Jan 14, 2024 |
Dio, quanto vorrei poter scrivere un libro sul trionfo di una dieta dimagrante e su come ho imparato a convivere con i miei demoni. Quanto vorrei poter scrivere un libro sulla pace che provo e il bene assoluto che mi voglio, qualunque sia la mia taglia.

Questa non sarà una vera e propria recensione, perché Fame non racconta una storia che possa essere giudicata. La storia è quella dell’autrice, Roxane Gay, e del suo corpo, un corpo grasso che nessunə vuole vedere e tuttə vogliono guarire senza essere dispostə a considerare che ciò che sappiamo noi potrebbe non essere l’unica verità importante.

Fame è un libro che si ascolta, in silenzio, e lo si ascolta anche se avete a che fare con il cartaceo o l’ebook e non con l’audiolibro. Leggere Fame è come avere Gay davanti a voi che vi racconta la sua storia, senza indulgenza e senza autocommiserazione. L’unica cosa che vi viene chiesto di fare è ascoltarla adesso che finalmente ha trovato le parole, e il coraggio, per mettere nero su bianco la sua storia.

Fame è un libro che fa male (davvero tanto male) e che non ha paura di andare in posti bui e oscuri che mai vorremmo vedere; è un libro che parla di invisibilità di corpi pur così visibili; è un libro che parla di amore e affetto al di là di ogni barriera. Fame è un libro difficile: smaschera un sistema del quale facciamo tuttə parte, che trova accettabile schiacciare le persone che non rientrano tra le fortunate. E fa schifo.

Questo è un libro sul mio corpo, sulla mia fame e, in ultimo, sullo scomparire e perdersi e voler essere visti e capiti, volerlo con tutte le proprie forze. È un libro sull’imparare, anche lentamente, a concedersi di essere visti e capiti. ( )
  lasiepedimore | Jan 11, 2024 |
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for you, my sunshine, showing me what I no longer need and finding the way to my warm
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This is the reality of living in my body: I am trapped in a cage. The frustrating thing about cages is that you're trapped but you can see exactly what you want. You can reach out from the cage, but only so far.
My body is a cage. My body is a cage of my own making. I am still trying to figure out my way out of it. I have been trying to figure a way out of it for more than twenty years.
When I was twelve years old, I was raped.
So many years past being raped, I tell myself what happened is "in the past." This is only partly true. In too many ways, the past is still with me. The past is written on my body. I carry it every single day. The past sometimes feels like it might kill me. It is a very heavy burden.
Hating myself became as natural as breathing.
I ate and ate and ate at school. At home for breaks, I made a show of dieting (and continued eating everything I really wanted to eat, in secret). This double life of eating would become something that stayed with me well into adulthood. It lingers even now.
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Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties -- including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point at age 12 -- and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With candor, vulnerability, and authority, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen.

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