A powerful memoir about food, fatness, and feminism. Tell your friends the hard truths they need to hear. Notice: This is a 15-minute summary and analysis of Hunger. "How to Be Friends with Another Woman" is a Cosmopolitan magazine-style list. The chapters' formats vary in ways that seem meant to be playful but come off as gimmicky instead. "Everyone means well, but there's a lot of bureaucracy. I turn around to say something before I realize she is talking to me." She sheds her overstated humility a few pages later, writing about university committee meetings. Gay is rather rude for ignoring that poor student. Straining credulity, in "Typical First Year Professor," she writes, "Walking down the hall, I hear a young woman saying "Dr. There will be no picture of a thin version of me, my slender body emblazoned across this book's cover, with me standing in one leg of my former. The story of my body is not a story of triumph. As a result of guilt and shame, Roxane fell into a cycle of abusive relationships. Also blunting Gay's points (and she does have points to make, important ones) is her seeming ambivalence about her own competence. Here I offer mine with a memoir of my body and my hunger. Roxane Gay had her life derailed by a violent and traumatic event. Summary: In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body.