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Roxane Gay

This person is the author of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. The author is a successful writer of both fiction and non-fiction. In Hunger, the author explains in harrowing detail a childhood experience as a victim of gang rape and subsequent painful struggles living as a morbidly obese person.

Gay's Mother

This person is a Haitian-American who is loving and stylish and who cooks Haitian food for the author's family. The author feels that this person has always been uncomfortable with her obesity.

Gay's Father

This person is Haitian-American and is a loving and supportive force in the author's life, but this person is also unable to fully accept the author's body. This person told the author she deserved justice after learning about her rape decades later.

Christopher

This is the name the author gives to the person who initiated her gang rape when she was...

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