1/31/2024 0 Comments Roxane gay hunger memoir![]() As a woman not directly affected by sexual assault, I can only go so far in understanding the author’s experience. When Gay was twelve years old, she was ganged raped by a boy she loved and his friends in a cabin in the woods behind her home. I naively figured it would just be about her relationship with food. ![]() When I first picked up Hunger, I had no inkling that the book would involve Gay’s sexual assault. Hunger is a memoir of the whys of her body, of sexual assault and rape, trauma, guilt, loneliness, family, victimhood and survivorship, and the lifelong process of healing. Hunger is not only a memoir of physical hunger or the way Roxane Gay ate herself to fatness but why she did. ![]() Books end up in our hands at serendipitously perfect moments of our lives sometimes Hunger has been one of those books for me.
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