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Instead of a straightforward manifesto, Hunger is a discursive take on a small question: How did I become this person? She isn't interested in empowerment, or even a message a reader can take away, but rather making some meaning out of the things that have happened to her. A constant refrain of the book is how difficult just writing about her body was for her. Read more: 'I Love Dick' and the Narcissism of Romantic Obsession Freedman said she wasn't comfortable calling Gay "fat" but was more comfortable with the medical term Gay pokes fun of and dismisses in Hunger, "super morbidly obese." On Hunger's release day, Mamamia, an Australian podcast, posted an interview with Gay with an introduction describing how difficult it was for them to get a sturdy chair and how the host, Mia Freedman, emailed with Gay's publicist to ensure Gay could fit in the elevator. That's not to say that this is ideal text for the Fat Acceptance Movement.
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"They don't know how to hide their shock when they realize that a reasonably successful writer is this overweight," she writes. Late in the book, Gay writes of the dislocation she sees on the faces of people who did not realize that she is fat before booking her for a reading or lecture.
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Hunger is, as the subtitle ("A Memoir of (My) Body") implies, a memoir about having a body, and what it means to have one that doesn't fit into the regular bounds of society.