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Roxane Gay is a writer of extreme empathy. Her fiction and essays elicit as much shared understanding as they give. Her new memoir, Hunger, is the story of being a physical woman in a physical world that has been shaped for so long by men. And I suspect that every woman who reads Hunger will recognize herself in it. For men who read the book, it will be more of a travelogue. Vade mecum. 
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"We tend to hold feminism and feminists to unreasonable standards."
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The genre-spanning writer on oppressed and unruly bodies, and her new memoir, Hunger.
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The body is a complicated thing, not only in the way it is perceived by others but also in the way we perceive it ourselves.
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Keah Brown is a reader not a fighter. A lover and a writer. She has a BA in Journalism from The State University of New York at Fredonia. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Essence, Catapult, and Lenny Letter, among other publications. Follow her on Twitter at @Keah_Maria.
bobbygw's curator insight,
August 7, 2017 11:46 AM
Keah Brown is a reader not a fighter. A lover and a writer. She has a BA in Journalism from The State University of New York at Fredonia. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Essence, Catapult, and Lenny Letter, among other publications. Follow her on Twitter at @Keah_Maria
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Clifford Thompson considers the strengths and shortcomings of Roxane Gay's "Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body."
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Hunger is [...] thoughtful reportage about a country we pretend we don’t know, one where women struggle every day for dignity, safety, and simple elbow room.