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Roxane Gay: An unflinching memoir

The Interview

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The Importance of Being Confident

In the book you write about it in a very spare but deeply affecting way. You were unable to share this traumatic experience with your family, with your parents. I was terrified and we were raised Catholic. I thought what had happened was a sin that I would go to hell. But by doing that the damage within you was exacerbated because you internalized everything.

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