She deliberately overate as a self-protection strategy after being raped at 12 years of age by a group of boys, one of whom was well known to her. In Hunger, Gay documents her life as a morbidly obese woman. Roxane Gay is an American writer who has written several books of both fiction and non-fiction, and is prolific on social media networks as well as being the first black woman to write for Marvel comics. This extraordinary memoir gives a timely reminder never to judge another human being by their appearance, with or without knowledge of their life experiences. I found ways to hide in plain sight, to keep feeding a hunger that could never be satisfied - the hunger to stop hurting. I was swallowing my secrets and making my body expand and explode.
