There was also a theme of resentment woven into the memoir of slender-bodied people and a disgust for when people and places couldn’t cater to a woman of her size. In nearly every conversation in the book, she seemed ready to jump down someone’s throat for saying the wrong thing. On the other hand, parts of the memoir felt repetitive and other parts felt defensive and combative. Gay’s memoir proves that she’s a very strong and capable woman. That takes serious grit and strength of character. Gay has overcome an unfortunate deck of cards and built a life of success from them. She doesn’t hold back and unabashedly puts herself out there for her reader’s scrutiny. On one hand, I applaud Gay for the raw and honest view into her life. While I liked the book overall, I feel like I’m in the minority in that I didn’t love it. I struggled with parts of it. Her memoir stretches back to her early childhood and ends with her life today, discussing her success as an author and the challenges she continues to face.
Gay is very transparent in her memoir, sharing intimate and heartbreaking details about the root cause of her weight gain and how the extra weight makes her feel safe. Hunger is a memoir by Roxane Gay, featuring and starring her body and life as a super morbidly obese (>50 BMI) female living in the United States.
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With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and power that have made her one of the most admired writers of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to learn to take care of yourself: how to feed your hungers for delicious and satisfying food, a smaller and safer body, and a body that can love and be loved-in a time when the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes. In Hunger, she explores her own past-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life-and brings readers along on her journey to understand and ultimately save herself.
As a woman who describes her own body as “wildly undisciplined,” Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. (From ) From the 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