She then proceeds to read two chapters from ‘Hunger – A Memoir of (My) Body’ – one about her hatred of exercise, and the other about googling and finding one of the men, who raped her, when she was only 12 years old. Roxane Gay begins by reading a humorous piece about the legendary American television personality Mister Rogers (Fred Rogers, 1928-2003). And so I wrote a book called ‘Hunger’, about what it means to live in a fat body in a world that is not at all hospitable to fat bodies.” Enjoy this video with the acclaimed American writer Roxane Gay, who gives a compelling reading from her New York Times bestselling memoir. “I’ve always found that the things I find the most intimidating end up being the most intellectually satisfying.
