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  • Kitchen Confidential Annotated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Bourdain, Anthony
    Anthony Bourdain

    Kitchen Confidential Annotated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

    A deluxe, annotated edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain, featuring new photo insertsOver two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, "Don't Eat Before Reading This," by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one's...
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  • Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites by Christensen, Kate
    Kate Christensen

    Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites

    A delectable memoir about the transformative power of food, Blue Plate Special is a deeply personal narrative in which food becomes the vehicle for exploring a life. Here, novelist Kate Christensen tells her own story, from her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the...
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  • Paul Hollywood: Bread, Buns and Baking by Dagnell, A. S.
    A. S. Dagnell

    Paul Hollywood: Bread, Buns and Baking

    The son of a baker with a chain of shops on the East coast of England, Paul originally trained as a sculptor. He first turned his hand to the art of bread-making at the age of 17, when he served an apprenticeship within his...
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  • Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food by King, Michelle T.
    Michelle T. King

    Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food

    In 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor that would last four decades. Years later, in America, flipping through...
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  • Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in the Company of Cats by Barey, Patricia
    Patricia Barey

    Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in the Company of Cats

    The world knows Julia Child as the charismatic woman who brought French cuisine to America and became a TV sensation, but there's one aspect of her life that's not so familiar. Soon after the Childs arrived in Paris in 1948, a French cat appeared...
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  • Mrs Beeton and Mrs Marshall: A Tale of Two Victorian Cooks by Kay, Emma
    Emma Kay

    Mrs Beeton and Mrs Marshall: A Tale of Two Victorian Cooks

    The name Mrs Beeton has endured for well over a century, synonymous with all things reassuringly culinary, while her contemporary Agnes Bertha Marshall remains somewhat of an enigma.Both Isabella Beeton and Agnes Bertha Marshall lived within a short distance of each other in Pinner,...
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  • The Language of Baklava: A Memoir with Recipes by Abu-Jaber, Diana
    Diana Abu-Jaber

    The Language of Baklava: A Memoir with Recipes

    Diana Abu-Jaber's vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together delicious food memories that illuminate the two cultures of her childhood--American and Jordanian. Here are stories of being raised by a food-obsessed Jordanian father and tales of Lake Ontario shish kabob cookouts and goat stew feasts under...
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  • The Fermented Man: A Year on the Front Lines of a Food Revolution by Dellinger, Derek
    Derek Dellinger

    The Fermented Man: A Year on the Front Lines of a Food Revolution

    On January 1, 2014, homebrewer and writer Derek Dellinger began a journey that would change everything he thought he knew about fermented food and beverage. For an entire year, Dellinger ate and drank only products that had been created by microbes. Exploring the vast...
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  • Biting Through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland by Furstenau, Nina Mukerjee
    Nina Mukerjee Furstenau

    Biting Through the Skin: An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland

    At once a traveler's tale, a memoir, and a mouthwatering cookbook, Biting through the Skin offers a first-generation immigrant's perspective on growing up in America's heartland. Author Nina Mukerjee Furstenau's parents brought her from Bengal in northern India to the small town of Pittsburg,...
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  • Growing up Sylvia'S by Woods, Brenda and Van
    Brenda and Van Woods

    Growing up Sylvia'S

    From the small community of Hemingway, South Carolina, to the streets of New York City, Growing Up Sylvias offers a biography of Sylvia Woods, the Queen of Soul Food, and her husband, Herbert Woods. Written by Sylvias daughter-in-law and son, Brenda and Van D....
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  • Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Johnson, Rebecca May
    Rebecca May Johnson

    Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen

    ** INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD AND RECIPES ** "An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking." -- Nigella Lawson "One of the most original food books I've ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious." -- Olivia Laing...
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  • The Fixed Stars by Wizenberg, Molly
    Molly Wizenberg

    The Fixed Stars

    From a bestselling writer, an intense and moving memoir about changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships--now in paperback At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney. Married to a man for nearly...
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  • My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir by Harris, Jessica B.
    Jessica B. Harris

    My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir

    In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her youth "surrounded by some of the most famous creative minds of the seventies and eighties...James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Nina Simone" (New York magazine)--in a vibrant, lost era of New York...
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  • Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories: Foreword by Alice Waters by Singer, Fanny
    Fanny Singer

    Always Home: A Daughter's Recipes & Stories: Foreword by Alice Waters

    A cookbook and culinary memoir about growing up as the daughter of revered chef/restaurateur Alice Waters: a story of food, family, and the need for beauty in all aspects of life. In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother--and herself--Fanny Singer, daughter of food...
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  • Colonel Sanders and the American Dream by Ozersky, Josh
    Josh Ozersky

    Colonel Sanders and the American Dream

    From Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars' worth of products. But only one of them was ever a real person-Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC. From a 1930s roadside café in...
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  • The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Stone, Daniel
    Daniel Stone

    The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

    The true adventures of David Fairchild, a turn-of-the-century food explorer who traveled the globe and introduced diverse crops like avocados, mangoes, seedless grapes--and thousands more--to the American plate. "Fascinating."--The New York Times Book Review - "Fast-paced adventure writing."--The Wall Street Journal - "Richly descriptive."--Kirkus...
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  • Yes, Chef by Samuelsson, Marcus
    Marcus Samuelsson

    Yes, Chef

    JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the great culinary stories of our time."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday...
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  • Today's Special: 20 Leading Chefs Choose 100 Emerging Chefs by Phaidon Press
    Phaidon Phaidon Editors

    Today's Special: 20 Leading Chefs Choose 100 Emerging Chefs

    "Expansive in scope, Today's Special aims to capture a snapshot of what the future of dining around the world will look like." - Salon Be ahead of the curve and get to know 100 of the most exciting rising-star chefs from around the world,...
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  • In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain by Vitale, Tom
    Tom Vitale

    In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

    Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work with a legend. In the nearly two years...
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  • Taste: My Life Through Food by Tucci, Stanley
    Stanley Tucci

    Taste: My Life Through Food

    From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. He shared the magic of those...
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  • Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography by Woolever, Laurie
    Laurie Woolever

    Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography

    New York Times bestseller An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had...
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  • The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: A Love Story by Drummond, Ree
    Ree Drummond

    The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels: A Love Story

    New York Times BestsellerWildly popular award-winning blogger, accidental ranch wife, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman) tells the true story of her storybook romance that led her from the Los Angeles glitter...
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  • Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene by Reed, Kim
    Kim Reed

    Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene

    A razor-sharp look at one woman's nearly two decades in the New York City restaurant scene, including her time working with Joe Bastianich, and what happens when your job consumes your life. ​ By day, Kim Reed was a social worker to the homebound...
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  • An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables by Madison, Deborah
    Deborah Madison

    An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables

    As a groundbreaking chef and beloved cookbook author, Deborah Madison--"The Queen of Greens" (The Washington Post)--has profoundly changed the way generations of Americans think about cooking with vegetables, helping to transform "vegetarian" from a dirty word into a mainstream way of eating. But before...
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  • The Pink Lady by Family, Sabeen's
    Sabeen's Family

    The Pink Lady

    A cookbook never conceived before....This is no ordinary cookbook; indulge in a flavorful journey, celebrating the inspiring story of Sabeen Mansoor through her amazing food. Starting from childhood until her sad demise due to Covid-19 at the young age of 43, it contains her...
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  • Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Shopsin, Tamara
    Tamara Shopsin

    Arbitrary Stupid Goal

    In Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, long before Sex and the City tours and luxury condos. The center...
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  • Posts of a Mid-Century Kid by Anderson, Ann V.
    Ann V. Anderson

    Posts of a Mid-Century Kid

    Anderson takes us on a journey to 1950s and 60s Kansas and treats the reader to hometown cooking in her tasty memoir Posts of a Mid-Century Kid. With humor and richly crafted details, she chronicles her mid-century childhood, offering a sampling of another era....
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  • Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family by Howard, Hannah
    Hannah Howard

    Plenty: A Memoir of Food and Family

    A moving reflection on motherhood, friendship, and women making their mark on the world of food from the author of Feast.Food writer Hannah Howard is at a pivotal moment in her life when she begins searching out her fellow food people--women who've carved a...
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  • The Gastronomical Me by Fisher, M. F. K.
    M. F. K. Fisher

    The Gastronomical Me

    In 1929, a newly married M.F.K. Fisher said goodbye to a milquetoast American culinary upbringing and sailed with her husband to Dijon, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. The Gastronomical Me is a chronicle of her passionate embrace of a...
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  • At the End of Ceres Street: A Chef's Salute to Portsmouth, New Hampshire by Haller, James
    James Haller

    At the End of Ceres Street: A Chef's Salute to Portsmouth, New Hampshire

    Over fifty years ago, chef and author James Haller found his way to Portsmouth, NH. The charm of this small seaport town and its inhabitants grew into an affection tender and wise, which Haller celebrates in this love letter to the city and to...
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  • 32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line by Ripert, Eric
    Eric Ripert

    32 Yolks: From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Hailed by Anthony Bourdain as "heartbreaking, horrifying, poignant, and inspiring," 32 Yolks is the brave and affecting coming-of-age story about the making of a French chef, from the culinary icon behind the renowned New York City restaurant Le Bernardin....
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  • Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook by Waters, Alice
    Alice Waters

    Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook

    The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed memoir from cultural icon and culinary standard bearer Alice Waters recalls the circuitous road and tumultuous times leading to the opening of what is arguably America's most influential restaurant. When Alice Waters opened the doors of...
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  • Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Powell, Julie
    Julie Powell

    Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously

    The bestselling memoir that's "irresistible....A kind of Bridget Jones meets The French Chef" (Philadelphia Inquirer) that inspired Julie & Julia, the major motion picture directed by Nora Ephron, starring Amy Adams as Julie and Meryl Streep as Julia. Nearing 30 and trapped in a...
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  • Posts of a Mid-Century Kid: Doing My Best, Having Fun by Anderson, Ann V.
    Ann V. Anderson

    Posts of a Mid-Century Kid: Doing My Best, Having Fun

    Anderson takes us on a journey to 1950s and 60s Kansas and treats the reader to hometown cooking in her tasty memoir Posts of a Mid-Century Kid. With humor and richly crafted details, she chronicles her mid-century childhood, offering a sampling of another era....
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  • Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch by French, Erin
    Erin French

    Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

    From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME world dining destination, a life-affirming memoir about survival, renewal, and finding a community to lift her up Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every...
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  • Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate) by Thomas, Amy
    Amy Thomas

    Paris, My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark Chocolate)

    "Feels appropriate to indulge in this sweet and sometimes savory read while filming [in Paris]! I'm loving every tip and recommendation I read and cannot help but feel Emily would too."--Lily Collins, star of Emily in Paris (via Instagram)Forever a girl obsessed with all...
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  • Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Bourdain, Anthony
    Anthony Bourdain

    Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

    Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV's Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, "A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People...
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  • Pancho Villa's Saddle at the Cadillac Bar: Recipes and Memories by Cash, Wanda Garner
    Wanda Garner Cash

    Pancho Villa's Saddle at the Cadillac Bar: Recipes and Memories

    In 1924, Achilles Mehault "Mayo" Bessan and his eighteen-year-old bride journeyed from New Orleans to Mexico, where he ultimately transformed a dirt-floored cantina in Nuevo Laredo into a bar and restaurant renowned across the United States for its fine seafood and fancy cocktails. The...
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  • American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way by Freedman, Paul
    Paul Freedman

    American Cuisine: And How It Got This Way

    Hailed as a "grand theory of the American appetite" (Rien Fertel, Wall Street Journal), food historian Paul Freedman's American Cuisine demonstrates that there is an exuberant, diverse, if not always coherent, American cuisine that reflects the history of the nation itself. Combining historical rigor...
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  • Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom by Chandler, Adam
    Adam Chandler

    Drive-Thru Dreams: A Journey Through the Heart of America's Fast-Food Kingdom

    "This is a book to savor, especially if you're a fast-food fan."--Bookpage This fun, argumentative, and frequently surprising pop history of American fast food will thrill and educate food lovers of all speeds.--Publishers Weekly Most any honest person can own up to harboring at...
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  • The Fixed Stars by Wizenberg, Molly
    Molly Wizenberg

    The Fixed Stars

    The New York Times-bestselling author's thoughtful and provocative memoir of changing identity, complex sexuality, and enduring family relationships.At age thirty-six, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly...
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  • Burn the Place: A Memoir by Regan, Iliana
    Iliana Regan

    Burn the Place: A Memoir

    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef's struggle to find her place and what happens once she does. Burn the Place is a galvanizing memoir that chronicles Iliana Regan's journey from foraging on the...
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  • Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India by Jaffrey, Madhur
    Madhur Jaffrey

    Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India

    The enchanting autobiography of the seven-time James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and acclaimed actress who taught America how to cook Indian food. "Wistful, funny and tremendously satisfying.... Jaffrey's taste memories sparkle with enthusiasm, and her talent for conveying them makes the book relentlessly appetizing."...
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  • Sobremesa: A Memoir of Food and Love in Thirteen Courses by Caminos Oria, Josephine
    Josephine Caminos Oria

    Sobremesa: A Memoir of Food and Love in Thirteen Courses

    The table is where we find our way. Together.The communal family table bears witness to our lives. The way we approach each meal speaks volumes about who we are and what we are going through in that very moment. It's where the spirits of...
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  • School Lunch: Unpacking Our Shared Stories by Schaeffer, Lucy
    Lucy Schaeffer

    School Lunch: Unpacking Our Shared Stories

    Bought or brought? Revisit the nostalgia of the school cafeteria with this collection of interviews, vivid portraits, and elaborately reimagined food photos. Food often unites us in unexpected ways--especially on Taco Salad Day. Drawing on material from more than seventy voices, these stories capture...
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  • One For the Road by Kershaw, Alister
    Alister Kershaw

    One For the Road

    Alister Kershaw was ABC Radio's Paris Correspondent for many years and wrote classic books on French manners, like The History of the Guillotine and Murder in France. With this book though, he tells of his life in the small hill-town of Maison Salle, and...
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  • In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain by Vitale, Tom
    Tom Vitale

    In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

    Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes listeners behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work with a legend.In the nearly two years since...
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  • Eat, Drink & Be Wary: Cautionary Tales by Biehl, Kathy
    Kathy Biehl

    Eat, Drink & Be Wary: Cautionary Tales

    Food and drink do a lot more than address physical need. They play a central role in our emotional and social existence. They serve as currency for hospitality, love, and affection, as a security blanket and plug for psychic wounds, and as a touchstone...
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  • Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations by Jr.
    Roy Jr. Blount

    Save Room for Pie: Food Songs and Chewy Ruminations

    Our best-laid plans will yield to fate.And we will say, "We lived. We ate." Roy Blount Jr. is one of America's most cherished comic writers. He's been compared to Mark Twain and James Thurber, and his books have been called everything from "a work...
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  • Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Gay, Roxane
    Roxane Gay

    Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

    The New York Times BestsellerNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistLambda Literary Award winnerFrom Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist, a memoir in weight about eating healthier, finding a tolerable form of exercise, and exploring what it means to learn,...
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