Roxane Gay

New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, 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 “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In Hunger, she casts an insightful...

-- Échos de presse«¿S’appuyant sur sa propre expérience de diaspora, Roxane Gay montre la complexité de l’identité haïtienne en Amérique.¿»Financial Times«¿Gay offre l’image d’une Haïti honnête, vivante, respirante, et non statique ni condamnée. AyitiNecessary FictionL’auteureRoxane Gay, née en 1974, est une auteure, professeure et éditrice américaine d’origine haïtienne. AyitiRoxane Gay est l’auteure du best-seller...

The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends...