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. 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. Louis Post-Dispatch PopSugar BookRiot Library Journal Booklist Kirkus Reviews Shelf Awareness 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.
New York Times bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Lambda Literary Award winner A best book of 2017: Time NPR People Elle The Washington Post The Los Angeles Times The Chicago Tribune Newsday St. Preservation Week is supported by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, a division of the American Library Association.Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and it tells a story that hasn’t yet been told but needs to be. You can also follow her on Twitter with and connect with her on Facebook at /roxanegay74 as she discusses pertinent social and cultural issues.ĭownload the free Preservation Week 2020 poster featuring Roxane Gay I am honored to serve as this year's Preservation Week Honorary Chair as the very people who will preserve the stories of how the world is currently responding to injustice, gather to learn, connect and remember.”Īs Preservation Week 2020 Honorary Chair, Gay will appear in Preservation Week artwork and will chronicle preservation efforts through various social media channels. We know this because of preservation, because storytelling is such an integral part of social justice movements, and librarians have been committed to preserving those stories and other artifacts from these movements. “We are living in a time of great social turmoil, but this is not the first time the world has seen such upheaval, nor will it be the last. “Preserving our cultural history is as important now as it has ever been,” Roxane states. Her oral and written accounts of the current social and political climate, along with her active online presence, make her the ideal honorary chair to support the 2020 Preservation Week theme of “Preserving Oral History.”
A recurrent contributor to a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Gay writes about cultural, political and social issues.Īuthor of Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger, Gay is a leading voice in modern feminism and numerous social justice movements. 2021 Honorary Chair, Nikole Hannah-Jonesīestselling author, educator and cultural critic Roxane Gay is teaming up with the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to share her years of experience as a writer, storyteller and social commentator during Preservation Week, April 26 – May 2, 2020.Helping Military Families in the Library.Real Life Treasures: The Veteran's History Project.Handling Library Materials and Collections During a Pandemic.