“I was thinking about what I want to do next, and I was thinking the book I want to write least is a book about fatness, so I was thinking, okay, this is a book I need to write most,” she says in an interview from L.A. ![]() ![]() In her bare and punchy prose, in short staccato musings and longer personal narratives, Gay gives the reader both her own story and the too-often unspoken truth of living in a fat body. It is an intensely personal story that becomes a universal musing on the state of fat bodies in a society that doesn’t want them to fit. After a brutal gang sexual assault at the age of 12 in a cabin by boys from her nearby suburban community, Gay put meat on her bones to create an armour, which then became its own burden. ![]() Gay rips herself open and lays bare her own history to display how our world doesn’t welcome different shapes and sizes.
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