Highly recommend you read this important work and internalize Gay's message. Grab some tissues, because this is no fluffy read. The whole memoir gave me a new perspective and, I think, made me a better human. Her approach to discussing obesity made me really consider my own place in society, the space I take up, and the superiority complex of small people.
I underlined more in this book than I have in all the books I read this summer combined, and not always because Gay was being prolific or especially profound, but often because she was just being honest. She has taken an awful thing that happened to her and built her life around it, for better or worse. She has spent her life writing and it's so obvious.
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This memoir tells Gay's story of being fat and what that means to her, what it means to society as a whole, as well as her rape & it's role in her obesity. Bad Feminist shows this extraordinary writer’s rangein essays about Scrabble, violence, fairy tales, race, The Hunger Games, longing, and Sweet Valley Confidential, Gay is alternately hilarious, full of righteous anger, confiding, moving: Bad Feminist is like staying up agreeing and arguing with the smartest person you ever met. Hungerwas my first dabble in Roxane Gay's body of work and I do think I'll be back for more. I’ve read many essays, opinions and other pieces featured in the New York Times, Medium and so much more I. Her memoir, Hunger, was so moving, heart breaking, personal and brave that I am in awe of it. It is a book about the human need to consume and be consumed, as well as the pleasure and pain that comes from indulging. From being totally lost in the world to finding success, Gay uses her life as a lense to serve up the large scoop of reality that many of us need. There are so many reasons why I’m a fan of Roxane Gay and I haven’t even read any of her fiction. Roxane Gay’s new memoir, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body serves as a taxonomy of its author’s insatiable desires: for food and sex, kindness and freedom, love and respect. A memoir from Roxane Gay, author of New York Time s' Best Selling essays Bad Feminist (among many others) that frankly discusses rape, obesity, and society on each.