Grace Mattern: Roxane Gay and the right body [ConcordMonitor.com]

Samantha Sangenito 7/20/174:00 AM

Roxane Gay is fat. Her new book, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, tells the brutally raw story of how she got so fat and why.

At 12 she was gang raped. She barely had words for what happened to her, and the words she could muster she couldn’t say to anyone, not even her parents. They loved her but she was a good Catholic girl, and good girls didn’t get raped.

So she swallowed her secret and got big, big enough that she felt safe from male attention. Which is the response many girls have to being sexually assaulted.

[For more of this story, written by Grace Mattern, go to http://www.concordmonitor.com/...dy-is-right-11215106]

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