by Roxanne Gay
The memoir deals with her gang rape as a preteen, overeating, and the author's struggles with her public and private identities.
Gay's work has been greatly influenced by a sexual assault she experienced at the age of 12 at the hands of her boyfriend and his friends. This led to obsessive overeating which served as a way to keep men at a distance.
See: Roxanne Gay. Since the publication of Hunger, Gay has become an important public intellectual who publishes regularly in the NY Times.
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