Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.
"I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to eras...show more
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Gay shares her difficult path through life and the effect that a [then] undisclosed rape at age 12 framed her life and self image for years. Although primarily a revelation of her life as a very tall, very large woman has made her a target for fat shaming from even the most well intentioned persons, she also examines sexual abuse, race and eating disorders. This book and did more for my understanding and appreciation of the need for Universal De...read more
I've never heard of Roxane Gay, didn't know who she was and was only half listening to Trevor Noah interview her on The Daily Show. I ended up stopping what I was doing to listen to what she was saying. She wrote a book about being fat?
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Hunger is a memoir of her body. Gay was gang raped at the age...read more
http://cc.com/shows/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah/guests/tds-roxane-gay/oifn27/roxane-gay---fitting-into-the-world-in--hunger----extended-interview
Hunger is a memoir of her body. Gay was gang raped at the age...read more
This memoir is both very interesting and very moving. I could relate to a lot of what she wrote about since nearly every woman in America struggles with weight loss (even the thin ones seem to stress about it). There were also many things about life in the BMI numbers above overweight and obese that I was unaware of and therefore perhaps not sensitive to - for example, some of the accommodations that are necessary. I like Gay's collection [b:Bad ...read more
Should I - or anyone - be allowed to rate a memoir?
Do I even have the right to rate a memoir as vulnerable and brave as this one?
When I picked this up, I expected something so well written that I'd swoon at words, sentences, paragraphs. That expectation was met. I expected something confident and a little bit in my face. A little bit of this expectation was met. What I did not expect was what I mostly got - bare bones and sensitivity and humili...read more
Do I even have the right to rate a memoir as vulnerable and brave as this one?
When I picked this up, I expected something so well written that I'd swoon at words, sentences, paragraphs. That expectation was met. I expected something confident and a little bit in my face. A little bit of this expectation was met. What I did not expect was what I mostly got - bare bones and sensitivity and humili...read more
A difficult read. Not because of the writing. Writing was brilliant. But the content, the rawness and realness and truth of it all. Hard. I’ve been through a roller coaster of emotions with this book everything from judgement, anger, annoyance, fear, sorrow, respect, love, recognition. It has challenged me and made me think. What conclusions have I come to? None. Zilch. Zero. But I think this book will remain with me for a while to come. Did I en...read more
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