Hunger by Roxane Gay review – one body’s lsons for everybody | Autobgraphy and memoir | The Guardian

Contents:

• REVIEWS OF HUNGER BY ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY’S COMPLITED “HUNGER”
• HUNGER BY ROXANE GAY REVIEW – ONE BODY’S LSONS FOR EVERYBODY

REVIEWS OF HUNGER BY ROXANE GAY

Roxane Gay shows how to be cent to ourselv, and cent to one another. At s simplt, ’s a memoir about beg fat — Gay’s preferred term — a hostile, fat-phobic world.

A memoir that’s so brave, so raw, feels as if [Gay]’s entstg you wh her soulSeattle Tim. Gay turns to memoir this powerful reflectn on her childhood trmas…Timely and ronant, you n be sure that Hunger will touch a nerve, as so much of Roxane Gay’s wrg do. Gay ni that hers is a story of “triumph, ” but rears will be hard prsed to fd a better word.

In 88 short, lucid chapters, Gay powerfully tak rears through reali that pa her, vex her, gui her, and rm her work. And on nearly every page, Gay’s raw, powerful prose plants a flag, facg down s of shame and self-loathg by reclaimg the body she never should have had to lose. Gay, live your life.

ROXANE GAY’S COMPLITED “HUNGER”

We all need to hear what Gay has to say the pag....

Gay says hers is not a succs story bee ’s not the weight-loss story our culture mands, but her breakg of her own silence, her movement om shame and self-loathg toward honorg and fivg and rg for herself, is self a profound Francis Chronicle. Hunger is Gay at her most laceratg and probg.... Anyone faiar wh Gay’s books or tweets knows she also wields a dagger-sharp Globe.

HUNGER BY ROXANE GAY REVIEW – ONE BODY’S LSONS FOR EVERYBODY

While Gay sists that her story is not one of triumph, and that she is not a role mol, she don't give herself enough cred.

Her ndor is rehg and mendable and other survivors of asslt will certaly relate to, and perhaps fd fort Gay's stggle. Those who stggle wh their weight will also likely relate to Gay's story. Gay turns to memoir this powerful reflectn on her childhood trmas…Timely and ronant, you n be sure that Hunger will touch a nerve, as so much of Roxane Gay's wrg do.

A memoir that's so brave, so raw, feels as if [Gay]'s entstg you wh her soul.