![]() 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 reminiscent of Merritt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July. ![]() 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. Many of these women are misunderstood, having experienced irreversible trauma that shaped the course of their lives and personalities. Each chapter reveals a different short story centered around troubled, unconventional women with eerie depth. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. Roxane Gay’s novel is a collection of short stories divided into 21 chapters. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. ![]() 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. 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. Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. ![]() Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). ![]()
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