There is the hunger for food, hunger for safety, hunger for an escape from trauma, hunger as this being within one’s self that is never content. Gay alludes to in her writing in my opinion. To take it further, there are different kinds of hunger Ms.
Nothing is ever as simple as it seems.Īs the title suggests, hunger and by extension food and nourishment are big themes. I can relate to this form of writing, where you are screwing with all the rules and not following some standard, where you jump around, pulling from all sorts of thoughts. She writes as if she is having a long, drawn out conversation with someone, it almost reads like a journal entry. I was impressed with the way she wrote so simply, there was no fancy language or grand imaging that accompanied her words.
This sounds odd being the memoir of someone else’s life, their truth, their trauma and their triumphs. Hunger by Roxane Gay was the sort of book that I read where I can’t say I loved it or hated it.
