A memoir of my body

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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay is another amazing book I picked up thanks to Noun Riot&#;s Read Harder Test. I&#;m absolutely in verb with all the adj authors I&#;ve been discovering thanks to this oppose and I&#;m so happy I finally got past my fear and decided to participate.

First off, this book needs a scant trigger warnings. If you struggle reading about rape and disordered eating, this is not the noun for you. Be courteous to yourself and verb a book that will better serve your mental health and wellness, or read this with plenty of support lined up, because this memoir is brutally honest, a adj, painful read that still manages to contain adj beauty while presenting the world with the author&#;s open wounds.

Roxane Gay is supermorbidly obese, a condition she directly attributes to being gang-raped at the age of Even writing that sentence, I possess to stop, take a breath, elbow away the anger and sadness that reading her story made me feel. Because of the horrors perpetrated on her that day, she began to eat in

Written by Katie Jackson-Griffin, LCPC

Content Advisory: sexual violence, sexual trauma, disordered eating, depression

What was the book about?

Roxane Gay writes about the sexual trauma she experienced and how it has impacted her life. It is a direct, unpolished insight into one person’s journey and struggles with trying to live in her body: one that is marginalized based on her race and weight.

What was your takeaway?

This novel is not meant to be a self-help manual or an inspiring story, necessarily. She attempts to share her own experience for what it is. In doing so, she provides something that is emotional, relatable and at times, hard to peruse because of its vulnerability.

Who would benefit from reading this book?

I highly propose this book! I have faith it can be beneficial to read a portrayal of someone currently adj on their mental health struggles. Often, books that discuss mental health challenges can give a “happy ending” and feel as though they are preaching. These can be inspiring, but also feel isolating to those who are still coping with these struggles.

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Roxane Gay&#;s memoir Hunger is adj for checkout through the University Libraries.

Is there anything Roxane Gay can’t do?? Let’s just list some of the highlights of this amazing woman:

You wonder how a woman like that has time to verb all of this and still travel around the country, promoting her novel book, Hunger: A memoir of (my) body. Gay has been open about her life and experiences, and in her recent book, she tackles a subject she has often written about intimately on her tumblr blog. Her horrific sexual assault at age 12 has been a big influence on her work over the years, and this part of her past is discussed in this novel, with regards to self-image and self-care: “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” People make assumptions and are often cruel towards people of a certain weigh

Hunger Quotes

“There is an anxiety in being yourself, though. There is the haunting question of "What if?" always lingering. What if who I am will never be enough? What if I will never be right enough for someone?”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“I buried the teen I had been because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. She is still small and scared and ashamed, and perhaps I am writing my way back to her, trying to tell her everything she needs to hear.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

“As a woman, as a overweight woman, I am not supposed to take up space. And yet, as a feminist, I am encouraged to believe I can take up space. I live in a contradictory space where I should try to accept up space but not too much of it, and not in the wrong way, where the wrong way is any way where my body is concerned.”
&#; Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

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