![]() In Hunger, Gay tells of how she turned to food as a solace and an armour, and documents her complicated relationship with her body, her family and her desires. Gay’s ‘after’ has been almost 30 years of dealing with the consequences of a savage violence done to her one afternoon in the woods when she was 12 years old. Early in her book, Gay writes: ‘There is the before and the after. Her new book, Hunger, is a deeply personal memoir that examines how trauma can shape a person’s life and their body. Roxane Gay is the smart, funny, outspoken author of the bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist and several acclaimed works of fiction.
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