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Available
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Description
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.
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Publication
Harper (2017), Edition: 1st Edition, 320 pages
Pages
320
Physical description
320 p.; 5.5 inches
Awards
Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2018)
National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist — Autobiography — 2017)
Indies Choice Book Award (Honor Book — Adult Nonfiction — 2018)
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (Longlist — Nonfiction — 2018)
Reading Women Award (Shortlist — Nonfiction — 2017)
Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize (Longlist — Nonfiction — 2018)
Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (Nonfiction — 2017)
NPR: Books We Love (2017)
Library Journal Top Ten Book (2017)
Notable Books List (Nonfiction — 2018)
Globe and Mail Top 100 Book (2017)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year (Non-Fiction — 2017)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Adults (Selection — 2017)
LCC
BF697.B63 G39
Language
ISBN
0062362593 / 9780062362599