People is running a first serial and an interview she’ll be on The Daily Show the night before on sale and Fresh Air interview airs 6/19/17 with other interviews to appear in Elle and.
In terms of publicity, everyone wants Roxane for this one. It’s received four starred advance reviews and is Indie Next pick. Feminist, incisive, with her trademark ability it blend cultural theory and pop culture, Hunger is a searing book you won’t soon forget. Many memoirs have been written on being overweight–this is a take you haven’t seen.
Gay broke out with 2014’s bestselling Bad Feminist, which was a best book of the year on many lists and won the 2015 PEN Center USA Freedom to Write Award, a prize given in recognition of her “important, incisive, and connective” writing as well as for tackling “tough subjects and controversial topics with a hard-edged grace and difficult honesty.” Novelist and essayist Gay adds memoir to her considerable repertoire in this unforgettable mediation on what it means to be an “unruly body”-an obese woman in a culture that so profoundly and narrowly equates appearance with worth.
