The event was surprisingly upbeat, considering Hunger delves into the raw, vulnerable aspects of Gay’s life, including her struggles navigating the world as a fat person and the aftermath of a sexual assault she suffered at age 12. Parker School in Lincoln Park on Monday while promoting her new memoir Hunger.Īt the Chicago Humanities Festival event, the bestselling writer and New York Times columnist addressed the crowd with her typical wryness, read two chapters from Hunger, took questions, and paused in interludes to crack jokes. Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist and Untamed State, spoke to a crowd of hundreds at Francis W.
