This is not a book about triumph.
Thats the first line inHunger,which like Roxane Gays essay collection,Bad Feminist is fairly radical.
I started this book fat, and Im finishing it fat, says Gay.
Credit: Jennifer Silverberg
This isnt a book about successful weight loss.
Its about trying to change my relationship with food.
Shell describe how her size has changed the way she dresses and even the way she inhabits public space.
You start to research restaurants to see if the chairs will accommodate you.
You stop going to the movies or the beauty salon.
She knows that this will be harder to do onceHungercomes out.
Already, shes baffled by the insensitive way its being covered in the media.
One publication headlined an interview with her Chewing the Fat With Roxane Gay.
But to her, that reaction just proves that this book needed to be written.
It was putting the elephant in the room, so to speak, she says.
People will look, but they wont say any thing, or theyll say something behind my back.
So I decided to stop that game and say, You know what?
Im gonna talk about this.
Im gonna take control of the narrative and of my body.'
