I also want to understand what it is to be a woman in our society, and how I can make that world better for my daughter. This summer I have been reading stories, mostly by women, as a way to find answers in my own life. And I read this memoir, highlighting most of it, my Kindle heavy with its weight, because this is a story that needs to be heard, and I wish we had more like it. She says that this is “simply, a true story” (7). She says that “there will be no picture of a thin version.emblazoned across this book’s cover” (6).
She goes on to explain that this story isn’t one of “triumph”, it is not a “weight-loss memoir”. Here I offer mine with a memoir of my body and my hunger” (6). Roxane Gay’s memoir Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body begins with the explanation: “Every body has a story and a history.
