“Writing this book is a confession.These are the ugliest, weakest, barest parts of me.
And yet, Gay admits within the first few pages of Hunger that this latest book has been the most difficult for her to write: Gay is no stranger to controversial subject matter, as evidenced by her previous works Bad Feminist, An Untamed State, Ayiti, and Difficult Women.
In her new memoir Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay explores the topic that she has been most hesitant to address: the history of her body, including the traumas inflicted upon it and her self-destructive attempts to hide herself within it.
