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4.3 AVERAGE
4.3 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Already one of my top books of the year!!! Clearly shows how trauma can physically affect the body and alter one’s mindset. I’ve held the belief since I was very young that the majority of people who experience sudden weight gain (or loss) is have hard moment in life. Not always, but it’s easy to care for one’s health when life has been turned upside down. I’ve learned a lot of what it means to be in a bigger body and privileges that I wasn’t even aware.
All my respect goes to Roxanne and my deepest condolences. I wish her nothing but the best.
All my respect goes to Roxanne and my deepest condolences. I wish her nothing but the best.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia, Rape, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Misogyny, Medical content
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
This is a beautiful and heartwrenching book. If it interests you at all, please read it! Roxane Gay is an amazing writer and this gives us a glimpse into why her fiction is so often painful to read.
challenging
reflective
Oh I wish I could go back in time and give young Roxane a hug.
Many of her thoughts as a young adult are so relatable, despite me not living through anything nearly as traumatic as her pre-teen self.
This book also gave me some genuine insight into how hard life is for those with larger bodies. I could see it, but I never really gave it a huge amount of thought. And that's a huge bit of personal privilege.
Roxane, I hope you genuinely come to love yourself. And realise that you deserve all the awesome things.
Many of her thoughts as a young adult are so relatable, despite me not living through anything nearly as traumatic as her pre-teen self.
This book also gave me some genuine insight into how hard life is for those with larger bodies. I could see it, but I never really gave it a huge amount of thought. And that's a huge bit of personal privilege.
Roxane, I hope you genuinely come to love yourself. And realise that you deserve all the awesome things.
challenging
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Such an honest and vulnerable insight into the author and her relationship to her body. Her story is not my story but there is so much that is relatable in how we as women view our own bodies; our relationship with food, and the journey of valuing oneself.