TY - BOOK AU - Gay,Roxane TI - Hunger: a memoir of (my) body SN - 9780062362599 AV - BF697.5.B63 G39 2017 U1 - 813.6 Gay KW - Gay, Roxane. KW - Body image KW - Eating disorders KW - Biography KW - Discrimination against overweight persons KW - United States KW - Adult child sexual abuse victims KW - Sexually abused children KW - Mental health KW - Overweight women KW - African American women KW - PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Eating Disorders KW - bisacsh KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft N2 - 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 ER -