About the book
Roxane Gay, known for essays and a long-running Tumblr blog about food and the body, turns to her own body in a memoir she has called the hardest book she has ever written. She looks back on her childhood, teens and twenties, including the sexual violence she suffered at 12, after which she gained weight both for comfort and to protect herself from the world. Gay describes life in a very large body: men shouting at her from passing cars, the question of personal space, and clothing makers, weight-loss advertising and public transport that fail to accommodate her. The parentheses around the word my in the title stand for the physical barrier she built after that trauma.
Emma Watson put it on her Our Shared Shelf reading list, and Brene Brown praised its searing honesty about food, weight and self-image.
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Brene Brown (Author & Researcher)
This book will take your breath away with its truth-telling. A searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.
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- Brene Brown's 4 Books For New Beginnings
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