Her parents were confounded, which did not make Gay alter her newfound behavior or confide in her family. Gay felt the need to fortify herself after such a violation and, so, beginning at boarding school in her teens, she ate with abandon. Rarely has she written about the event as it happened, or its consequences. Up until this point, the celebrated writer often explores her gang rape at the age of 12 by neighborhood boys obliquely, in fiction. Roxane Gay's Hunger is one of the most plainspoken books about trauma ever written. This article shared 584 times since Wed Dec 13, 2017
