She is a large woman, and because she knows you will wonder, she reveals on page 6 that, “At my heaviest, I weighed 577 pounds at six feet, three inches tall.” As you read, you realize how that fact has nothing to do with her courage, her power, or her ability to lay it all out. Roxane Gay holds nothing back, and you have to appreciate her stark honesty. “I don’t know how things got so out of control, or I do.
