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    Difficult women / Roxane Gay.

    • Title:[Short stories. Selections]
      Difficult women / Roxane Gay.
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    • Author/Creator:Gay, Roxane, author.
    • Published/Created:New York : Grove Press, 2017.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Short Stories (single author)
    • Genre/Form:Short stories.
      Psychological fiction.
    • Edition:First edition.
    • Description:viii, 260 pages ; 22 cm
    • Summary:"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"-- Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:"First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition" -- Verso title page.
    • ISBN:9780802125392 (hardcover)
      0802125395 (hardcover)
      9780802189646 (eISBN)
      0802189644 (eISBN)
    • Contents:I will follow you
      Water, all its weight
      The mark of Cain
      Difficult women
      FLORIDA
      La negra blanca
      Baby arm
      North country
      How
      Requiem for a glass heart
      In the event of my father's death
      Break all the way down
      Bad priest
      Open marriage
      A pat
      Best features
      Bone density
      I am a knife
      The sacrifice of darkness
      Noble things
      Strange gods.
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