It’s a shocking story, one that Gay tells with heartbreaking honesty and straightforward truth. I was willful in this,” Gay writes.Īt 12, Gay was gang raped by a boy she thought she was in love with and a group of his friends. Losing control of my body was a matter of accretion. “I don’t know how things got so out of control, or I do. Hunger: A Memoir of My Body is Gay’s story of how and why she became so overweight.
Roxane Gay is a bestselling author, but she also happens to be obese.
