9 Body Positive Books That'll Shape Your Self-Loving Journey

Roxanne Gay's memoir Hunger tells the story of her gang rape, her overeating, and the pain of being fat in a world set up for thin people. It's a heartbreaking story of trauma and shame. Although her takedowns of the "weight-loss industrial complex" are wholehearted, Gay bristles at being a poster woman for fat acceptance. She resists easy conclusions. "This is the reality of living in my body: I am trapped in a cage," Gay writes.