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lizzie_wann 's review for:
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by Roxane Gay
This book. I like Roxane's writing because it's very accessible, and I mean that in the most complimentary of ways. She writes like she's having a conversation with you. That's hard to do.
Roxane writes about a vicious circle she created to protect herself that now is difficult to break. After a horrific gang-rape when she was twelve (twelve!) by the boy she thought she loved and who she thought loved her and his friends, she ate to hide her body, her girl self, her shame. What she discovered is although her weight gain did give her an armor of a sort, it also made her more visible to people, but not in a kind way. Most people are severely cruel to fat people, and the world is not built for people of size.
Reading this book, which goes very quickly despite its length, was heart-wrenching, funny, hopeful, and devastatingly rendered.
Roxane writes about a vicious circle she created to protect herself that now is difficult to break. After a horrific gang-rape when she was twelve (twelve!) by the boy she thought she loved and who she thought loved her and his friends, she ate to hide her body, her girl self, her shame. What she discovered is although her weight gain did give her an armor of a sort, it also made her more visible to people, but not in a kind way. Most people are severely cruel to fat people, and the world is not built for people of size.
Reading this book, which goes very quickly despite its length, was heart-wrenching, funny, hopeful, and devastatingly rendered.