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Hunger
by Roxane Gay
All of us -- at least, all women -- know the struggle of trying to achieve the unachievable standard of beauty that our society has spent years cultivating within us and without us, and then grappling with the deep-seated desire simultaneously achieve body-positivity. We want to be thinner, taller, curvier, smoother, and we want to not want it.
Roxane unpacks that in a way that I've scarcely seen elsewhere, and then she adds her own perspective -- the perspective of a person living in a body that our society treats as, best case scenario, invisible. A body that is the result of trauma. And knowing that, while having to hold her head high through humiliation after humiliation because our culture is cruel.
There are so many layers to why this book is important. It's good. Just read it.
Roxane unpacks that in a way that I've scarcely seen elsewhere, and then she adds her own perspective -- the perspective of a person living in a body that our society treats as, best case scenario, invisible. A body that is the result of trauma. And knowing that, while having to hold her head high through humiliation after humiliation because our culture is cruel.
There are so many layers to why this book is important. It's good. Just read it.