Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“Roxane Gay is a brilliant writer. The way she’s able to express herself and her vulnerabilities in such an open and honest way is something I hope I was able to imitate in my work. But it’s a perspective on body that every young woman should read. So much culturally for women is tied up in our bodies: our worth, our sexuality. Culturally, we’ve been told that if our body isn’t a certain way, then you don’t have value. That’s an idea Roxane Gay—more eloquently than anyone—challenges and breaks down with humour and vulnerability.” Read more...

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Dana Schwartz, Memoirist

New York Times best-selling author Roxane Gay narrates the audiobook of her painful memoir, Hunger. Journalist Dana Schwartz told us it was a book “every young woman should read.”

Narrator: Roxane Gay

Length: 5 hours and 58 minutes

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