There’s something special to be said about people who share such intimate things about themselves maybe that they share too much. “It’s such a hard read but so worth it.” I put off reading it for over a year-perhaps because I knew it would be so difficult to read.
“She’s so honest about her trauma,” Hailey told me. I picked up books I still haven’t read, and Ash picked up a copy of a book I pretended I had read.Ī few weeks later, Hailey begged me to read Hunger. She dragged Ashley and me to the closest Barnes and Noble so she could pick up her copy.
Hailey told me about Roxane Gay’s Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body the day after it released.