Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

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

161 reviews

maemick's review

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual assault, and Violence

madand's review

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Racism, Rape, and Eating disorder

siobhanward's review against another edition

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

rchltnnswd's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

kateped's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Rape

erinriker's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Rape, and Fatphobia

madelineb's review

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, and Fatphobia

bonniejpg's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Body shaming, and Rape

Gay’s memoir does not shy away from talking about her trauma in detail.

readwithinna's review

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

Reading this felt like I was in a conversation between friends that I shouldn't have been a part of nor should have heard. Roxane Gay was so honest, so raw, and so vulnerable in Hunger

Spoiler

as she relayed to readers the aftermath of her SA and how she worked through it by building a fortress out of her own body.

Personally, Chapter 57 (tw: eating disorder) hit too close to home. I read each word and felt a lump forming in my throat. How did she know? Is she just like me? Am I not alone?

How does one even rate a memoir? How does one person rate another person's art when it consists of them baring their entire soul to you? 5 stars, inspired work.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder and Rape

kay_e_poet's review

emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Physical abuse

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Self harm, Physical abuse, and Fatphobia

Minor: Vomit