The book itself, from HarperCollins Publishers, is easily accessible at most public libraries or local bookstores, and its 304 pages will not leave the reader wishing they’d spent their time elsewhere. Gay’s career is exemplified best with her memoir Hunger, an account of the author’s deeply personal struggle with obesity following a harrowing sexual assault in her early childhood. Her literary achievements have landed her a firm standing among similar writers. Roxane Gay is a professor and acclaimed author of the essay collection Bad Feminist, and the short story collections Difficult Women and Ayiti.
