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

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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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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challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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readwithinna's review

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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

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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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emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

4.25

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challenging dark emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

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