Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Non-fiction
Inner Life & Growth
People Navigating Growth & Change
Lovers of Stories & Human Experience
Why I recommend it
Gay writes plainly about trauma, her body, and the cruelty of other people’s judgments. She doesn’t turn her life into a reassuring story of transformation.
What stayed with me
No one owes us an inspirational story about their body. Gay insists on telling her own experience as it is.
Who it’s useful for
Memoir readers interested in body image and how people live with trauma.
A tension or limitation
The descriptions of sexual violence, disordered eating, and cruelty toward fat people are direct and difficult.