I naively figured it would just be about her relationship with food.
When I first picked up Hunger, I had no inkling that the book would involve Gay’s sexual assault.
Hunger is a memoir of the whys of her body, of sexual assault and rape, trauma, guilt, loneliness, family, victimhood and survivorship, and the lifelong process of healing. Hunger is not only a memoir of physical hunger or the way Roxane Gay ate herself to fatness but why she did. Books end up in our hands at serendipitously perfect moments of our lives sometimes Hunger has been one of those books for me.
