A detective hired by her parents found her, she came home, and she eventually got a Ph.D. She ran away from Yale in her junior year and disappeared into a seedy life she does not say too much about. The daughter of prosperous Haitian immigrants, she had an upbringing that was midwestern, though her boarding school and college were East Coast preppy. The book revisits some of the details of Gay’s life that she has written about elsewhere and fills in others. For men who read the book, it will be more of a travelogue. And I suspect that every woman who reads Hunger will recognize herself in it. Her new memoir, Hunger, is the story of being a physical woman in a physical world that has been shaped for so long by men. Her fiction and essays elicit as much shared understanding as they give. Roxane Gay is a writer of extreme empathy. Roxane Gay, Charleston, Illinois, July 2014
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