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

18 reviews

kenna14's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

One thing I will always appreciate about Roxane Gay is how honest she is. She doesn't try to shy away from the truth or sugarcoat things to protect your feelings. I love her and how she challenges me and how much I always learn when I read her books <3 (she's also a fellow swimmer. slay.)
AUDIOBOOK

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Racism, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Self harm, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, and Eating disorder

marissasa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

This memoir is so full of emotion and gut-wrenching truths about the ways society unfairly views and treats fat people, told with excellent writing and unflinching bluntness. I listened to Roxane Gay tell her own story on audiobook and it definitely enhanced the experience. This book will make you confront your own internal prejudices and biases towards fat people, especially very obese people, and make you question why society refuses to change to be more accepting and accommodating to people who are being constantly told that their bodies are a problem regardless of the fact that they are just human beings like anyone else. Roxane Gay's personal story is heartbreaking and intense, and I truly respect her choice to share the details and help others going through similar things realize that they are not alone. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Rape

muchadoaboutliz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Ableism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Medical trauma, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Medical content, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Homophobia and Xenophobia

gibetal's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Eating disorder, Vomit, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Racism

jettaparadis's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Roxanne Gay time and time again is a breathtaking writer 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, and Body shaming

Moderate: Mental illness, Racism, Sexual violence, Self harm, Physical abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Ableism

siobhanward's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

 I've never read anything by Roxane Gay before, but I see her reviews on a lot of books I've been reading recently and found myself using them as a gauge as to whether I might like a book. Gay is as good at picking books as she is at writing them apparently. This was a heavy, hard read but really good. Some parts were repetitive, beyond it being a stylistic choice it felt, but I understand the impact the repetition had at times.

This is a really heavy book - it's worth checking out other reviews and trigger warnings before jumping in because there were definitely times that I had to put it down for a bit before continuing. Still a great read and I look forward to reading more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Vomit, Sexual assault, Rape, Racism, Medical content, Fatphobia, and Injury/Injury detail

biblioghoul's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Sexual violence, Fatphobia, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Racism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Homophobia

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

Roxane Gay is such a masterful writer that I felt in good hands reading about sensitive topics. I'm glad I read this though it was difficult to find my footing sometimes in all the dark and troubling details. It's candid, sad, angering, challenging at once. Yet it was compelling and clever. It's my second Roxane Gay and I will surely read more in the future. Her perspective and wit are great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Vomit, Dysphoria, Medical trauma, Toxic relationship, Chronic illness, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Ableism, Emotional abuse, and Fatphobia

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

chris_reads's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Ableism, Body shaming, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Medical content and Vomit

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, and Sexual harassment

j_m_alexander's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

We all carry scars and some are brave enough to bare them to the world. 

This is one of those memoirs that I don't think anyone can say they particularly "enjoyed", but anyone with an ounce of humanity and empathy should be able to relate to, appreciate, and be thankful for it. 

At once painfully detailed and sparsely written. This is an author telling their truth (of her body), exploring their feelings about those truths (of her body), their parts in creating their own pain (regarding her body), being honest about those that created the wounds that will never fully heal and those that insist on rubbing salt in those wounds, as well as a society that dehumanizes, disgenders, and disrespects the bearer of these wounds (because of their views of her body). I have heard some characterize this book and the author as self-pitying or all-blaming, but I wonder whether they actually read the book (or lived a life). Gay does share her sadness, self-loathing, and anger - who can find fault in that? Who can't relate at least in some way to it? It's honest. It's relieving in some ways to hear so much hard truth revealed. It's simple (or it's extremely complicated). Roxane Gay does not ask for your pity in these pages. She explains what she's been through, her experiences, takes blame for what's hers to take and places blame on those that it be should placed on. If anything Roxane Gay is extremely self-critical, but she also demonstrates the characteristics of a sensitive, loving, intelligent mind, an admirable resilience, and wry sense of humor even when things seem bleak. We all hunger, we all strive to satisfy desires, we all adapt and develop defenses - this is so much of what it is to be human. This book is powerful and I am thankful for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence