![]() ![]() She expresses a sort of quiet anger about the way obese people are perceived and treated. Racism, body shaming, and feminism are all touched upon, but the real story is about how the persistent PTSD led to loneliness, shame, hunger (of more than just food), and her weight problem. She is revealing who she is, the struggles she has had-who am I to criticize the way she tells her story? But I will cut her all the slack in the world. The tone was understated-some anger and sadness underlying her words-yet at the same time it felt strangely unemotional. Plus there was nothing new on the subject of obesity or the politics surrounding it. It was repetitive, for one, although I do think some of the repetition was purposeful-a stylistic choice. ![]() On the other hand, the book fell short for me. She ate and ate so that she could get big enough to build a fortress around herself. On the one hand, this is an amazingly honest account of Roxane Gay's life with an unruly body, as she calls it, which developed after she was gang raped at 12.
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