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This is a must read memoir. I love Roxane Gay’s writing, and I do wonder as she does at times in this book, how our experiences shape us into the people we become. She is incredibly adept and wide open at describing the depths of how she and we all hunger for meaning, love, acceptance, from ourselves and others, especially as we try to heal from unspeakable trauma. This book is devastating at times but also hopeful, a reminder of how mean we can be to ourselves and others, how we often over-iden
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Woah... what a memoir. Hard to get through but very courageous. I connected to her story at some points and found it very powerful. This is a story I am unlikely to forget.
Wow. This was an incredible experience that really pushed my perspectives on bodies and weight. Roxane Gay has written an unbelievably careful, personal account of her experience with her body and how it her body interacts with society at large. There are no cliches or excuses, but a frank accounting of what happened and how she dealt with it. I love the way that she is split between being too smart to cave to the pervasive bullshit we have in this country about weight and women’s bodies and bei
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This is a raw, honest, vulnerable memoir about how Gay has used food and self-destructive behaviors to satiate many different kinds of hunger. It's also about the ways that the food and self-destructive behaviors have fallen short of healing her trauma. The audiobook is read by the author herself, and I felt that made it all the more powerful. I don't think this is a book you can really *enjoy* reading, but I certainly appreciated it.
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I was disappointed by the writing in this book. I thought it was dull and repetitive. The writing was just so boring and I didn't understand why she structured it the way she did. It just felt unfinished in a craft way, and I couldn't get past that. I know that she was brave and that this is a really important topic, but I was so disappointed with the writing and I couldn't get past that.
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