HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Buzz has long been building for Gay’s memoir, with which she’ll go on an extensive author tour. The result is a generous and empathic consideration of what it’s like to be someone else: in itself something of a miracle.
In 88 short, lucid chapters, Gay powerfully takes readers through realities that pain her, vex her, guide her, and inform her work. At its simplest, it’s a memoir about being fat Gay’s preferred term in a hostile, fat-phobic world. New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies. She focused the trauma inward, and, as a frequent refrain goes, she doesn’t know, or she does, how her body came to be “unruly,” “undisciplined,” and the kind of body whose story is “ignored or dismissed or derided.” The story of her body is, understandably, linked to the story of her life she tells both, and plumbs discussions about both victims of sexual violence and people whose bodies don’t adhere to the ideal of thinness. My Body is more of a non-linear memoir than a compendium of essays though Ratajkowski’s musings are nominally organised into discrete sections, they seem to bleed into a more general. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (Paperback). At 12, Gay survived a devastating sexual assault, a point on her time line that would forever have a before and an after. Readers will believe her it’s hard to imagine this electrifying book being more personal, candid, or confessional. More than once, Gay, author of essays ( Bad Feminist, 2014), short stories ( Difficult Women, 2017), and crime fiction ( An Untamed State, 2014), refers to writing this memoir as the hardest thing she’s ever done.
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