Indeed, Gay goes on to tell how she was brutally raped by a boy she was seeing and his friends when she was 12 years old.
I knew that Hunger would be a book about sexual assault and how it feels to be morbidly obese, to live in a fat body. I was unfamiliar with Gay’s work, except that she had become a feminist icon, hailed for her representation of queer women of color. Over Winter break, at the recommendation of a former Empower lab member, I had the pleasure of reading Roxane Gay’s latest, Hunger, A Memoir of (My) Body.
