“The story of my body is not a story of triumph,” Roxane Gay writes in her new memoir, Hunger, which publishes June 13. Gay discussed her new book Monday on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah.”“As a comedian, I’ve made a lot of fat jokes,” Noah said in his conversation with Gay. So he was intent on listening to what Gay had to say about her experiences rather than continuing to equate fatness with farce. On “The Daily Show,” describing her motivations for writing the book, Gay said, “I wanted to tell the story of my body, because when you’re fat in the world, people have assumptions. I think it’s important to show what it’s actually like to live in this world in a fat body.”

Source: Huffington Post June 13, 2017 04:27 UTC