Roxane gay hunger memoir

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In her latest book Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay writes the story of her body, confronting her past and present and all the events that led her to become a heavily overweight person for most of her adult life. The story of a body is the story of a life lived, the physical manifestation of the sum of our experiences, the sun we have enjoyed, the cold our hands have endured, the food we have eaten, but also, the traumas we have suffered. This hate is not innate rather, it has been ingrained in us from an early age through a culture that measures the values of girls and women through their bodies, each pound gained, and year aged, lowering that value.

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In an unending cycle, we hate, try to lose the weight, become overwhelmed by the difficulty, give up and then start all over again. As women, our criticism of our bodies is often ruthless our rolls, dimples, stretch marks, and cellulite a reflection of our laziness, carelessness, our excesses. Everyday, women of all ages around the world look in the mirror and hate what they see.

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