- Biography, African American women, Overweight women, Body image
“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . .
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Contemporary, spare, earnest and character-led.
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Roxane Gay
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- corsair uk, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062362599
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Roxane Gay's writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Harper's Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney's, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and New York Times bestselling Hunger: A Memoir of My Body. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel.
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