Hunger An Unnatural History [Paperback]

Every day, we wake up hungry. Every day, we break our fast. Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. InHunger, Sharman Apt Russell explores the range of this primal experience. Step by step, Russell takes us through the physiology of hunger, from eighteen hours without food to thirty-six hours to three days to seven days to thirty days. In quiet, elegant prose, she asks a question as big as history and as everyday as skipping lunch: How does hunger work?

Sharman Apt Russellis the author of several books, includingHungerandSongs of the Fluteplayer, which won the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award. She has written for publications includingDiscoverandNature Conservancy, and currently contributes toOnEarth, the magazine for the National Resource Defense Council. Russell teaches creative writing at Western New Mexico University and at Antioch University in Los Angeles, California. She lives in Silver City, New Mexico.