It’s hard and raw and incredibly full of emotion. Hunger is not an easy read or a book too listen to. ― Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body “Do my boundaries exist if I don’t voice them?”
It’s also about the author being so lost in her early twenties and eventually to process of self-care and healing herself. It’s about “living in the world when you are three or four hundred pounds overweight, when you are not obese or morbidly obese but super morbidly obese” when society sees weight loss as a default feature of womanhood. She worked on turning her body into a fortress. “ I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe.
She was gang raped at age 12 and started to gain weight to feel safe and not to be seen as attractive to men. In Hunger, Gay describes her relationship with of her body, from food and weight, to her experience as a victim of sexual violence. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body is a 2017 memoir by Roxane Gay. I know that hunger is in the mind and the body and the heart and the soul.” ― Roxane Gay, Hunger “My father believes hunger is in the mind.
