On Hunger's release day, Mamamia, an Australian podcast, posted an interview with Gay with an introduction describing how difficult it was for them to get a sturdy chair and how the host, Mia Freedman, emailed with Gay's publicist to ensure Gay could fit in the elevator. That's not to say that this is ideal text for the Fat Acceptance Movement.
'They don't know how to hide their shock when they realize that a reasonably successful writer is this overweight,' she writes. Late in the book, Gay writes of the dislocation she sees on the faces of people who did not realize that she is fat before booking her for a reading or lecture. Hunger is, as the subtitle ('A Memoir of (My) Body') implies, a memoir about having a body, and what it means to have one that doesn't fit into the regular bounds of society.
