Next comes a series of dead-end jobs, a return to school and eventual success as a writer. There she finds forums for rape and sexual abuse survivors, as well as chat rooms for people into BDSM (bondage, submission and sadomasochism). On one level Hunger is a straight-up memoir: the story of a shy, studious girl, the beloved daughter of Haitian immigrants, who endures a humiliating adolescence, an emotional breakdown in college and the “lost years” of her 20s when “I spent most of my waking hours online, talking to strangers”. Camera Icon Roxane Gay’s Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body.
