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Rachel
Jun 28, 2017 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics, feminism, nonfiction, libraryebook, memoir
I don't know how to describe this read. How do I say I didn't feel like I learned anything without sounding horrible? It was repetitive having read a couple of other books by her, and I wasn't impressed by the language as I have been in the past. It got better in the last half and it helped when she shifted her lens to society rather than herself.

Even though I didn't enjoy it very much, I do think it's message and it's reality is absolutely vital to try and understand. I think the main thing I ...more
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Jillian
Aug 16, 2017 rated it it was amazing
This is an amazing, perfect, totally real, honest, unpretentious and gripping memoir about so many things: trauma, femaleness, identity, relationships, sexuality, sexual abuse, doing damage, undoing damage, protecting oneself, disordered eating, hungering--the list goes on. Roxane Gay is one of my absolute favorite contemporary authors because of her unique voice and perspective, but also because of her willingness to be honest and real and write about things that are both beautiful and ugly and ...more
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Ryan
Jul 06, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: borrowed, 2017
There's a lot in this book that I hope to always carry with me...and a lot I KNOW I'll always carry with me ...more
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Jennifer lehman
Jan 30, 2019 rated it it was ok
I feel like I need to read something else of hers.
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Jen
Jul 28, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Heartbreaking, powerful and lessons I really needed to hear.
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Ching-In
Oct 01, 2016 rated it really liked it
Shelves: heard-books, nonfiction
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Kristen Iworsky
Sep 19, 2017 rated it really liked it
Sarah
Oct 23, 2020 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Ching-In
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Apr 20, 2025 rated it liked it
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Monica W.
Nov 08, 2018 marked it as to-read
Laura
Dec 18, 2018 rated it liked it
Shelves: memoirs
Steph S
Dec 20, 2018 rated it really liked it
Shelves: author-female, memoir, black-books-matter, 2018
Yiga
May 03, 2019 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Damian
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Amanda
Feb 23, 2020 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: women, nonfiction, exp, bio-memoir
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