{"id":36419,"date":"2018-10-02T16:49:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=36419"},"modified":"2018-10-02T16:49:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:49:17","slug":"ucba-oct2018-botm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2018\/10\/ucba-oct2018-botm\/","title":{"rendered":"October Book of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Christian Boyles<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Hunger<\/a><\/p>\n

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body<\/b><\/a>
\nby\u00a0<\/b>Roxane Gay
\n<\/b>BF697.5.B63 G39 2017<\/p>\n

About the book<\/b><\/p>\n

From the\u202fNew York Times<\/i>\u202fbestselling author of\u202fBad Feminist<\/i>: a\u00a0searingly\u00a0honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. As a woman who describes her own body as \u201cwildly undisciplined,\u201d Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In\u202fHunger,<\/i>\u202fshe explores her past\u2014including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life\u2014and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.<\/p>\n

With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved\u2014in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes.<\/p>\n

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Is it checked out?<\/b>\u00a0Don\u2019t worry about it. Here are some other titles on the subject.<\/b><\/p>\n

Eating Disorders Sourcebook : Basic Consumer Health Information About Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, and Other Eating Disorders<\/b><\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0RC552.E18 E287 2016<\/p>\n

Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, exercise addictions . . . these disorders can be devastating, but they are in no way unbeatable. Therapist Carolyn\u00a0Costin, herself recovered from anorexia, brings three decades of experience and the newest research in the field together, providing readers with the latest treatments, from medication and behavioral therapy to alternative remedies.<\/p>\n

Whether you are living with an eating disorder or you are a loved one or professional helping someone who is,\u202fThe Eating Disorder Sourcebook<\/i>\u202fwill help you:<\/p>\n