Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay. The bestselling author of Bad Feminist and Difficult Women writes with honesty, intimacy, and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological stru ggles to explore shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. Gay also writes candidly about an incident of sexual abuse that occurred when she was young and how that impacted her life. As she says in the book, "I ate and ate a nd ate i n 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. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe."