An Untamed State

Published May 6, 2014 by Grove Press.

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978-0-8021-2251-3
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I saw Roxane Gay speak at a lecture series, and concluded that this was someone I wanted to follow on twitter and read everything they wrote. I read her book of short stories, Difficult Women, first, thought it was excellent, and moved on to this novel.

It's well written and compelling -- I finished it at 2am this morning. The kidnapping, confinement, rape and torture are tough to take, but I still couldn't put it down. It's not just about the physical, but about how she emotionally and intellectually copes, and breaks. The characters are vivid. I liked that the protagonist, who you're pulling for, is not really an amiable person. I loved the relationship between her and her prickly mother-in-law. My god, those two women could take over the world, if they had any interest in that sort of thing. The action takes place in both Haiti and rural …

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