Reviews with content warning for Fatphobia - Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

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

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emileeandherbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective

4.0

Roxane tells the story of her body; its complicated journey, its beauty, its pain, its trauma, its story.

As a black, fat woman Roxane went through a looooooot. Our society is so fatphobic, so obsessed with wanting women’s physical forms to be small! Not just for attractiveness sake, but to disappear. To take up less space, as she puts it.

There’s 1 million true statements made about feminism, sexism, fatphobia, racism, etc. made in this book it’s impossible to write them all down. I feel like I learned a lot, and I will suggest this book to anyone and everyone that has a body.

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januaryapril's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

A great book, such difficult subject matter but Roxane Gay does an amazing job at telling her story. I felt so connected to her and so aware the whole time I was reading. Made me very aware of my body and confronted many of the same thoughts I have about what it feels like to exist and move in this world. Also made me more aware of how others may feel. Why have we come to a point where we all have to be so obsessed with our bodies and how do we escape this?

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madand's review against another edition

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4.0

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siobhanward's review against another edition

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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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aaliyah22's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective

5.0

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rchltnnswd's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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leweylibrarian's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I can't believe it's taken me this long to read anything by Roxane Gay, but dang this hit hard. It's fascinating how this was a memoir but based totally around her body: the trauma her body was subjected to, her self image, her weight, her ability to love and be loved, and mental health, it all harkens back to her body. There's a lot of tough subject matter, and it hits so dang hard.

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kateped's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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erinriker's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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madelineb's review against another edition

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challenging medium-paced

5.0

It is always strange to rate a memoir. What am I rating here? The story of her life? Her ability to articulate the story of her life? How much her story moved me? I think we end up with the latter most often and I know that's neither good nor bad but somewhere in a grey area. I can't imagine being brave enough to put something like this out there in the world.

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