Bestselling author Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties, with the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation.

"You're fat," Nick Fisher said, and the whole entire hallway fell silent. And then he said it again. "You're fat. And everyone thinks it." Something like that happens to you--something like what happened to me in fourth grade--and it never leaves your head. It's in there. Forever. Permanently. And it's not long before you don't even need to Nick Fisher's of the world to be there to tell you what they think of you--you become your own bully. And...

The Littlest Bigfoot is a story of twelve-year-old Alice, a misfit who is ignored by her own family and shipped off to boarding school. She'd love a friend, and one day she rescues mysterious Millie Maximus from drowning in a lake. Millie, it turns out, is a Bigfoot, part of a clan that lives deep in the woods. Alice swears to protect Millie and her tribe, and the two girls try to find a place where they both fit in.