Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay

Hunger was widely and favorably reviewed.[10][11][12][13][14] In the Los Angeles Times, Rebecca Carroll described the book as "a bracingly vivid account of how intellect, emotion and physicality speak to each other and work in tireless tandem to not just survive unspeakable hurt, but to create a life worth living and celebrating."[10] In USA Today, Charisse Jones gave the book three and a half of four stars, saying Gay's "spare prose, written with a raw grace, heightens the emotional resonance of her story, making each observation sharper, each revelation more riveting, and also sometimes difficult to bear."[15] At the same time, Kirkus Reviews writes Gay is "just as engaging when discussing her bisexuality and her adoration for Ina Garten, who taught her 'that a woman can be plump and pleasant and absolutely in love with food.'"[16] Nadia Craddock says that "Gay proceeds to write with both extreme vulnerability and grace" about her life and experiences.[17]

However, in a negative review in British conservative magazine The Spectator, Julie Burchill described Hunger as "despite the sad and shocking subject matter—just another addition to the ever-growing canon of the suffering sisterhood of solipsism."[18]