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A review by mrs_a_is_a_book_nerd
Hunger by Roxane Gay
3.0
This memoir is, indeed, raw and brave, honest and real. I'm glad I read it. It has many moments that made my breath catch, many passages that left me thinking, "Wow." In it, Gay relates--without graphic detail, but painfully, nonetheless--her experience of being gang-raped at age 12 by a boy that she cared for. From this incident, she traces her difficult and painful relationship with her body, the destructive choices she made in her personal life, relationships, family, and more, as well as her meditations on how society treats "fat" people.
The narrative is brave and certainly must have been painful to write. So I feel guilty that I can't agree with the many 4+-star ratings. However, I felt like someone should have been courageous enough to help her edit it, to guide her in the process of streamlining, connecting, making a cohesive product. It's ironic to me that I'm complaining that the book is "too big," but I am. It needed condensing to remove the repetitiveness that I feel stole power from her observations, her memories, her life.
The narrative is brave and certainly must have been painful to write. So I feel guilty that I can't agree with the many 4+-star ratings. However, I felt like someone should have been courageous enough to help her edit it, to guide her in the process of streamlining, connecting, making a cohesive product. It's ironic to me that I'm complaining that the book is "too big," but I am. It needed condensing to remove the repetitiveness that I feel stole power from her observations, her memories, her life.