“These are trivial wants but they aren’t.”Īt the same time, we are the same age and much of it felt like a personal message to me. I’m not a survivor, I’ve struggled with weight but society isn’t structured in a way that makes the struggle worse, and I often pass for white.īut because I am a human being, when Gay chronicles her feelings about something as simple as shopping, the line But I guarantee that as soon as you start, you won’t be able to put it down.” Both things are true. The first line of the marketing letter that comes with the Uncorrected Proof of Roxane Gay’s Hunger reads, “Dear Bookseller, What you have before you is not an easy book to read. Roxane Gay is coming to Miami on Friday, June 23rd.