Book #246 of 2018: Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Roxane Gay is a talented writer, but I must confess that I don’t find this 2014 essay collection as engaging as her later work Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. There’s little thematic cohesion across the pieces in this volume, most of which were independently published …
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Book Review: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Book #169 of 2018: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay This memoir from Roxane Gay is a powerful and emotional read about what it’s like for the author to go through the world and take up space as a medically-obese black woman. She is uncompromising and unflinching about her own trauma: from …
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