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Part I (Chapters 1 - 9)

Chapters 1 - 9:

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Gay, Roxane. Hunger: A Memoir of (my) Body. Harper Collins, 2017.

• The memoir begins with author Roxane Gay saying that her story is not a story of triumph; she is a morbidly obese woman living in what she calls an unruly body and possessing unruly appetites.

• Gay says that this book is the most difficult thing she has ever written because she is writing a memoir not just about her body but also about all that her body has endured.

• Gay views the writing of this book as a confession in which she reveals the ugliest, weakest, barest parts of herself.

• Gay reveals that she weighed 577 pounds at her heaviest. She details how she traveled to the Cleveland Clinic with her father for an information session on gastric bypass surgery...

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