This was a deeply visceral experience, both in the smooth, straightforward writing, and the reading of the text by the author in the audiobook edition. How the reader fills in the cracks is up to them part of the goal of this text is to force us literarily through that same process that Gay went through herself.
This was a difficult book to get through because it is not comfortable (see content warnings above) but if you are ready to be uncomfortable, this is a book that can crack you open emotionally. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane GayĬontent warnings for rape and body issues, both of which are presented in a straightforward but not euphemistic manner from the point of view of the person going through them.
