Hunger

English language

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978-0-06-236260-5
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5 stars (3 reviews)

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body is a 2017 memoir by Roxane Gay, published on June 13, 2017, by HarperCollins in New York, New York. Gay has described Hunger as being "by far the hardest book I've ever had to write." The parentheses that encompass the word "my" in the title signifies the physical barrier of weight-gain that Gay has built for herself in response to her emotional trauma, and also "marks the difficulty of the bracketed female self and voice breaking out of its ambiguous armor."

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4 stars

Gay's Hunger was incredibly powerful and incredibly heavy. At times I wanted to stop because it was so hard to read emotionally, but I couldn't tear myself away. I certainly gained new perspective from this book. My one critique is that the book was very repetitive at times. Perhaps it would have served better as a collection of essays instead of a memoir. The book did not progress as a linear timeline anyway.