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When I was looking through my TBR trying to figure out what to read next, I discovered that Hunger was available on audiobook from my library and immediately dove in without reading any kind of summary.
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This kind of writing comes from deep familiarity with both the form and function of language, and Roxane Gay is a master of it. TWs: discussion of eating disorders, sexual assault. It’s NOT simple in any way, shape, or form. It is a great example of deeply affective writing that is deceptive in its perceived simplicity. This volume is much less tongue-in-cheek and much more personal than Bad Feminist was. I’ve enjoyed Roxane Gay’s other work, and I follow her on Twitter, so I had some notion of what I was in for. This was a deeply visceral experience, both in the smooth, straightforward writing, and the reading of the text by the author in the audiobook edition. How the reader fills in the cracks is up to them part of the goal of this text is to force us literarily through that same process that Gay went through herself.
#SYNOPSIS OF THE BOOK HUNGER BY ROXANE GAY CRACK#
This was a difficult book to get through because it is not comfortable (see content warnings above) but if you are ready to be uncomfortable, this is a book that can crack you open emotionally. By recounting her relationship with childhood sexual assault, body-shaming, and feminism, Gay uses her story to initiate a discourse on body neutrality and self-compassion. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane GayĬontent warnings for rape and body issues, both of which are presented in a straightforward but not euphemistic manner from the point of view of the person going through them. Hunger is Gay’s critique of the sexist stereotypes that are designed to keep women’s bodies in line and her pursuit of fatness as a protest against sexualization.