Difficult Women (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780802125392)

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). 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.

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.

Author: Roxane Gay
ISBN-10: 0802125395
ISBN-13: 9780802125392
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 01/03/2017
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.80w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2016 pg. 77
Publishers Weekly 10/24/2016
Booklist 11/01/2016 pg. 25
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2016
Library Journal 12/01/2016 pg. 92
Library Journal 01/01/2017 pg. 111
Library Journal 09/01/2016