It's about starting to identify as lesbian but still being attracted to men.

It's about being the daughter of middle-class Haitian immigrants and not fitting into the narrative of blackness. She thinks her body size is one of those consequences. It's about the consequences of being gang-raped when she was 12, back when she was thin. This is a book about living in the world when you are 300 or 400 pounds overweight,' unquote.īut the book is about much more than that.

My guest, Roxane Gay, has written a new memoir that she describes as, quote, 'about living in the world when you are not a few or even 40 pounds overweight.