She does not duck from telling us, early on, that at 6ft 3in tall, she weighed, at her heaviest, 577 pounds: “That is a staggering number, one I hardly believe, but at one point, that was the truth of my body.” She does – and does not – know, she says, how things got so out of hand.
Hunger tells a story that must have been as hard to write as it is disturbing to read. Gay’s last book, Bad Feminist, became a New York Times bestseller and revealed her to be a writer unfazed by inconvenient truths and a champion of women – especially gay and black women. F at is more than a feminist issue – as this extraordinary memoir by novelist and essayist Roxane Gay reveals.
