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A review by shewantsthediction
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
I now see why people say Roxane Gay is such a great writer. Honestly I should've read this book first, because I wasn't super impressed by the meandering Bad Feminist. In this shorter memoir format, however, she shines.
I do hope that since the writing of this book, she's engaged a little deeper with fat politics, because it seemed like her understanding/knowledge was very surface level and mostly garnered from personal experience. I was bothered by the way she referred to BMI as if it means anything, and expected her to call out that it's a racist, unscientific unit of "measurement," but she didn't.
I do hope that since the writing of this book, she's engaged a little deeper with fat politics, because it seemed like her understanding/knowledge was very surface level and mostly garnered from personal experience. I was bothered by the way she referred to BMI as if it means anything, and expected her to call out that it's a racist, unscientific unit of "measurement," but she didn't.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Bullying, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Medical content