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Hunger

a Memoir of (my) Body
Sep 26, 2017LPL_PolliK rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
"Hunger" is a heartbreaking, brutal and courageous account of the violent gang rape that triggered Gay’s need gain large amounts to weight, to become bigger and bigger, to hide and cushion herself from the world outside. The rape is a defining experience that divides her life into "before" and "after". Gay's memoir weaves together this trauma and her inability to share it with her family with her experiences today living in a black, fat, queer body that is reviled, that isn’t accounted for, that is inconvenient. This is a book that you may have to experience slowly and revisit to take in the full impact. Gay writes with vulnerability, but without fear.