She is able to talk about weight and its impact on one human being, even though you graduate and get a Ph.D. “For her, putting on weight was putting on armor. “This is a book about a woman who is obese because she was gang-raped when she was 12,” Peters said. Professor of English Joan Peters, Ph.D., co-chair of the Campus Reading Celebration, believes “Hunger” has a powerful message that will resonate with many types of readers. Then, the author is invited to the campus to speak and sign copies of the book. Non-CSUCI students are $5.Įvery year, CSUCI holds a Campus Reading Celebration in which the campus and community are invited to read a book selected by a campus committee after fielding votes and suggestions from the campus community. CSUCI students, faculty and staff can attend for free and the public is welcome for $10. at the Grand Salon, for the CSUCI Campus Reading Celebration. Gay goes on to write that hers is not a success story, but simply a true story.
There will be no picture of a thin version of me, my slender body emblazoned across the book’s cover, with me standing on one leg of my former, fatter self’s jeans.” 24, 2018 - “The story of my body is not a story of triumph,” wrote New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay in her memoir, “Hunger.”
