They’ll feel like they understand fat bodies after reading this memoir and feel sad at the lives fat people live. I argue those will all be thin people who say that. People are going to read this book and call it raw, honest, inspirational, brave. Hunger a long-awaited memoir whose original publication date was pushed back quite a bit (a year, I believe).
Many of the chapters start with the same idea, which creates a poetic rhythm to the memoir. It’s effective at showing the difficulty of this book’s contents. Each chapter is written like flash fiction (about 1-4 pages), but it also feels like she gets writing, is ashamed of her story, and then starts again. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay was published on June 13th by Harper Collins.
