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challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0


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challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Roxanne Gay time and time again is a breathtaking writer 

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dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

Some memoirs just feel like info dumps about the author but this, Roxane Gay was able to weave a thread throughout that continued to tie together the whole memoir. 

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dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0


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5.0


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dark reflective sad medium-paced

3.5


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challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.25


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emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

Brutally honest, this memoir scraped both me and Roxane to the bone.

CWs: Rape, sexual assault, sexual violence, trauma, eating disorder, vomit, fatphobia, body shaming, racism, emotional abuse, toxic relationship. Moderate: Medical content, medical trauma, medical fatphobia, domestic abuse, sexual content, misogyny, sexism, injury/injury detail, mental illness, self harm, ableism, suicidal thoughts. 

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emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

As a fat queer black woman who comes from Caribbean heritage, this was the first time I felt truly seen in a book. People don’t understand what it’s like to live in a fat body and what it’s like to navigate the world physically and emotionally. The scars you carry on your skin and in your heart. Roxane Gay opens herself up to show what that’s like and I am so grateful for her words. 

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