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Intense, honest, and incredibly necessary. Roxane Gay blasts open preconceptions, judgements (conscious or not) that society has about fat people -- especially fat women -- and the painful fatphobia and shaming they are subject to every single day. This memoir is so powerful precisely because Roxane makes it explicitly clear that this is HER life, HER opinion, HER experience. It's so personal as to almost feel voyeuristic, and yet it is (as with all her work) compulsively readable. But through it all, her writing is so clear and accessible that readers can find themselves in her.
Roxane Gay is one of the (if not THE) most important writers working today. Full stop. Read this. Read her entire bibliography. NOW.
Intense, honest, and incredibly necessary. Roxane Gay blasts open preconceptions, judgements (conscious or not) that society has about fat people -- especially fat women -- and the painful fatphobia and shaming they are subject to every single day. This memoir is so powerful precisely because Roxane makes it explicitly clear that this is HER life, HER opinion, HER experience. It's so personal as to almost feel voyeuristic, and yet it is (as with all her work) compulsively readable. But through it all, her writing is so clear and accessible that readers can find themselves in her.
Roxane Gay is one of the (if not THE) most important writers working today. Full stop. Read this. Read her entire bibliography. NOW.