Ep 3 - The Lost Years
Roxane Gay reads from her raw and honest memoir. Now at university the repercussions of her violent assault continue to reverberate and she she struggles to cope.
Roxane Gay reads from her raw and honest memoir about her body and her hunger. She is now 19 and at Yale, but the repercussions of the violent assault she suffered in her childhood continue to reverberate and she struggles to cope.
Roxane Gay is the author of the bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist, and the short story collection, Difficult Women and her novels include An Untamed State she also wrote the World of Wakanda for Marvel and is a columnist.
Abridged by Rowan Routh.
Produced by Elizabeth Allard and Julian Wilkinson.
Photo credit:Jay Grabiec
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