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By (author) Roxane Gay; By (author) Gay, Roxane
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A collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection from award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay
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”Phenomenally powerful and beautifully written” the Guardian
The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister”s marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind.
From a girls” fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America.
”Gay brings the powerful voice that flows through her work as a novelist and cultural critic to the 21 short stories in her first collection . . . Gay”s “difficult women” are unforgettable” BBC.com
”Gay”s signature dry wit and piercing psychological depth make every story mermerisingly unusual and simply unforgettable” Harper”s Bazaar
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The stories,
phenomenally powerful and
beautifully written, demonstrate the threats so many women in reality face, but also how, whatever their situation, they have agency, resilience and identities away from stereotypes created and reinforced by men.
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Roxane is
a powerhouse of a writer.
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Powerful . . . Gay”s fantastic collection is
challenging, quirky, and memorable.
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Different to anything I”ve read before . . . Be warned, it can get a little dark at times, but the collection is
worth it
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A
powerful, two-fisted collection with heart under its surface.
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A writer of prodigious,
arresting talent
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Gay tells
intimate, deep, wry tales of jaggedly dimensional women. . . . Be they writer, scientist, or stripper, Gay”s women suffer grave abuses, mourn unfathomable losses, love hard, and work harder
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Gay expands her writing prowess with this collection featuring colorful women protagonists . . .
Refreshing yet intricate . . . This work will appeal to lovers of literary and feminist fiction
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Unified in theme ? the struggles of women claiming independence for themselves ? but wide-ranging in conception and form . . . Gay is
an admirable risk-taker in her exploration of women”s lives and
new ways to tell their stories
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Astonishing, arresting, and staggering
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Gay has fun with these ladies. Her narrative games aren”t rulesy. She plays with structure and pacing . . . She moves easily from first to third person, sometimes within a single story. She creates worlds that are firmly realist and worlds that are fantastically far-fetched
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Gut-wrenching . . .They aren”t just characters. They are our mothers, sisters and partners. They are human. They are us . . . Difficult Women is not a collection of happy stories, but these are real stories about real experiences and women seeking, deserving happy endings. They aren”t victims but survivors . . .
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