lcmilewski 's review for:

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

5.0

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As all of Gay’s work, Hunger challenges the reader to think about complicated issues of femininity, body image, sexuality, and violence from different angles. Hunger is the story of one woman’s relationship to her body and to a society with lots of opinions about that body, but it resonated with me strongly despite the fact that Gay’s body is in many ways different from mine. I found it fascinating and disturbing to read about the many contradictory ways that Gay relates to her body and to extrapolate from there about how women all over the world spend so much time and emotional energy worrying about their bodies and others’ perceptions of and control over them. What a drain on our intellectual capacities.