I felt a strong sense of understanding with this topic. So, she turned to food as a comfort, gaining more and more weight because “ I felt undesirable, then I could keep more hurt away” (Gay 15).
In the beginning, she opens up with the struggle of dealing with her “wildly undisciplined” body and how she claims she is “trapped in in a cage” (Gay 17) because of the rape she suffered when she was twelve years old.
Written by Roxane Gay, the author of Difficult Women, Hunger is a personal and harrowing tale that details her struggle with weight and how it has impacted her childhood, teens, and twenties. Hunger is probably one of the most heart-wrenching and powerful memoirs I have ever read.
