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Hunger

a Memoir of (my) Body
Sep 17, 2017donpowe rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Revealing, honest, courageous. The level of her candor was uncomfortable. As I read I was constantly challenged about my feelings, reactions, and fears. She evoked wide thought about relationships of all kinds, introspection about my place among the people I affect, pity and some anger. I could not help comparing her issues with those created by addiction and trauma generally. Mostly, I was left with how culture, particularly ours (and particularly as it relates to our being sexual creatures) distorts, bends, contorts and confuses. This is a very valuable work. Our city library selected it for the book everyone should read. It is a good selection. I would love to sit and talk with this author, question her, listen, learn and think, but I would be afraid of her and offending her. An odd contradiction of feelings and that is what this book evoked.