Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Hunger: Une histoire de mon corps by Roxane Gay, Roxane Gay

345 reviews

hikathleen's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail

camerynseymour's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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I learned so much from Roxane Gays perspective but personally did not love her writing style. I appreciate the insight into her life and I learned how difficult it can be for overweight people to navigate the world

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Vomit, Medical content, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail

pbraue13's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective sad tense

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual assault

lorischa's review against another edition

5.0

challenging reflective fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

queenofsages's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful reflective

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An impressive, incredibly brave, piece. I cannot image how difficult this was to write. A deeply personal work that reads as a diary. This book made me reflect on reading as a mechanism of building empathy. There are many in this world who would grow 10,000 feet if they read work like this. Because even though Gay is speaking about herself, she’s still describing what it means to be in a society where he body is “wrong.” 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape

Moderate: Racism

nahret's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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There is little here to say, except that I am in absolute awe of Roxane Gay's strength and force of will that enabled her (despite of how she sees herself) to write this incredibly vulnerable memoir. 

As a person who, as a teenager, ate herself fat for somewhat related reasons, there is a lot here that I understand intimately. I think that most people in the world would benefit from reading, or, as I did, listening to this book. Again, I can only applaud Roxane Gay for her willingness and ability to share this with the world. We are all better for it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual assault

eve81's review against another edition

5.0

dark hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship

Moderate: Biphobia

lllomnylll's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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Beautifully written. Very raw and reflective.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual violence

Moderate: Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual assault

Minor: Fatphobia, Racism

borowiczea's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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Roxane writes unashamedly about the realities of living as a woman of size in a fatphobic world, while revealing the events in her life that prompted her to actively gain weight. She takes the reader through the different stages of her life, and the struggles she had/has loving herself, and comes to the understanding that she is worthy of being loved and saving herself. Most poignant quote: "....the bigger you are, the smaller your world becomes."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence

jmraz01's review against another edition

4.0

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual assault