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Gay has fally wrten the book that she "wanted to wre the least." The moment she realized she "never want to wre about fatns" was the same moment she knew this was a memoir she had to wre.

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FRH AIR WEEKEND: ROXANE GAY AND SHERMAN ALEXIE

This weekend we talk wh the thors of two new memoirs: Gay's Hunger is the book "she wanted to wre the least." And Alexie's You Don't Have to Say You Love Me is about growg up on a rervatn. * fresh air roxane gay *

Frh Air Weekend: Roxane Gay And Sherman Alexie. Roxane Gay is a novelist and short story wrer. Be Bigger, Fight Harr: Roxane Gay On A Lifetime Of 'Hunger': Gay has fally wrten the book that she "wanted to wre the least.

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Gay has fally wrten the book that she "wanted to wre the least." The moment she realized she "never want to wre about fatns" was the same moment she knew this was a memoir she had to wre. Her new book is 'Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body.' * fresh air roxane gay *

You n listen to the origal terviews here: Be Bigger, Fight Harr: Roxane Gay On A Lifetime Of 'Hunger' Sherman Alexie Says He's Been 'Indian Du Jour' For A 'Very Long Day'. Gay has fally wrten the book that she "wanted to wre the least.

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Roxane Gay has fally wrten the book that she "wanted to wre the least. Gay trac her plited relatnship wh her weight back to beg a victim of sexual asslt as a child. A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay.

Bt Of: Roxane Gay / Sherman Alexie. " Gay's new memoir, 'Hunger, ' is about beg hundreds of pounds overweight, and how she first started gag weight after beg sexually asslted when she was 12.

BE BIGGER, FIGHT HARR: ROXANE GAY ON A LIFETIME OF 'HUNGER'

Roxane Gay has fally wrten the book that she "wanted to wre the least." Gay's new memoir, 'Hunger,' is about beg hundreds of pounds overweight, and how she first started gag weight after beg sexually asslted when she was 12. Also, Sherman Alexie discs his new memoir about growg up on the Spokane Indian Rervatn Washgton, where poverty and vlence were route. His new book is 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me.' * fresh air roxane gay *

My gut, Roxane Gay, has wrten a new memoir that she scrib as, quote, "about livg the world when you are not a few or even 40 pounds overweight. Roxane Gay is bt known for her bt-sellg llectn of says, "Bad Femist. Roxane Gay, wele to FRESH AIR.

ROXANE GAY: I'd be happy to.

GAY: It felt necsary to wre bee 's the book I wanted to wre the least.

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Roxane Gay has fally wrten the book that she "wanted to wre the least." * fresh air roxane gay *

GAY: I thk fat works well. GAY: Well, bariatric surgery is dangero surgery.

GAY: I had very ltle prehensn of what happened to me.

BE BIGGER, FIGHT HARR: ROXANE GAY ON A LIFETIME OF 'HUNGER'

GAY: You know, my 12-year-old self thought, oh, I mt've asked for this - not the way, you know, we say she asked for .

FRH AIR WEEKEND: ROXANE GAY AND SHERMAN ALEXIE

GAY: I, to this day, don't know how I was able to ver up what happened. GAY: You know, I was 12.

BE BIGGER, FIGHT HARR: ROXANE GAY ON A LIFETIME OF 'HUNGER'

GAY: Yeah. GAY: The boys' versn of the story was that was my choice and that I wanted and that I iated .

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