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WE ARE an all-male clothg optnal bed and breakfast retreat terg to gay, bi, and straight men 21 years or olr. The Boldns of Roxane Gay’s HungerIn her movg new memoir, the wrer explor sire, nial, and life an “unly body.

At a time when there is no shortage of remendatns for women on how to disciple or make peace wh their bodi, Roxane Gay’s book, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, stands out precisely bee she begs by clarg that she hasn’t overe her “unly body and unly appet. ”Hunger is about weight gaed and lost and gaed—at her heavit Gay weighed 577 pounds. ” The story of Roxane Gay’s body did not beg wh this vlatn of her nocence, but was the acture that would e to fe her relatnship wh food, sire, and nial for s.

Remend ReadgHunger builds on Gay’s wrg about femism, women’s bodi, and rape culture to unflchgly tackle personal experienc. Or I do” and “I do not have an answer to that qutn, or I do, ” imply that Gay unrstands all too well a broar culture that ref to acmodate fat bodi and the rtrat required to scribe the slights she’s experienced wh Gay is grapplg wh a paful, first-person story, she gracefully weav the sharp mentary that she’s e to be known for.

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But what Hunger illumat is that food and the anonymy of wrg on the ter were two of the salv for the lonels and anxiety that enveloped Gay to her 20s.

Its short, timate chapters follow Gay through the brokenns of her teens, the recklsns of the followg , and her current, ongog stggle to rencile the fact that beg an overweight black woman at tim mak her body a se for mentary and her humany visible.

You are your body, nothg more, and your body should damn well bee is not the first time Gay has wrten about her weight, the asslt she experienced her youth, and the ways that society assigns value to women of her size. An Untamed State, a novel that some ways parallels Gay’s own experienc, follows a protagonist who is btally kidnapped and then raped. Bad Femist clud an say about Gay’s trip to fat mp, and untls says she’s prevly published onle—cludg “Breakg Uniform, ” and “My Body Is Wildly Undiscipled And I Deny Myself Nearly Everythg I Dire”—are reprted Hunger.

Last year she appeared on This Amerin Life, where she noted the difference between beg “Lane Bryant fat” and super-morbidly obe (the latter the clil term for Gay’s size) Hunger, she repeatedly juxtapos an herent, ternal nflict: the survival mechanism of makg herself bigger the years followg her rape and the ways which that very act has ma her life difficult a new way. In one revealg sectn, Gay scrib the kds of exhstg nsiratns that she mak daily bee of her size—om googlg event venu to see if there are stairs, to worryg about airport seatg, to drsg mostly jeans and tton shirts, to wonrg whether a rtrant’s chairs will have arms that will pch her.

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