Hunger: A Memoir of My Body by Roxane Gay

BATB score: 8/10 🥹

Best as: wow what a memoir on eating to suppress feelings, eating as a defense mechanism, eating to hide to the point of morbid obesity

BATB TL;DR: sexually abused at 12, turned to eating to numb feels to the point of obesity

Best to: redundant with each chapter but forgivable

Best for: any women out there who agrees that fat shaming and fat dysmorphia is real; even if you are not (that) fat you wish to be less fat

Best quotes: “I reserve my most elaborate delusions and disappointments for myself.”

“I don’t want them, or anyone, to think I am nothing more than the worst thing that has ever happened to me.”

“What does it say about our culture that the desire for weight loss is considered a default feature of womanhood?”