Difficult Women
Roxane Gay
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 reminiscent of Merritt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July.
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Details
| ISBN | 9780802125392 |
| Genre | Fiction; Short Story Collection (Single Author); Black Interest |
| Publication Date | 03-Jan-17 |
| Publisher | Grove Press |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 272 |
| Notes | Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Lesbian Fiction |
| LoC Classification | PS3607.A985725 .A6 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | Good |
| Subject | Fiction / Literary |
| BookID | 3088 |
