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| Publisher: | Grove Press |
| Genres: | Short Stories, Fiction Books, Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| Authors: | Roxane Gay |
| Pages: | 260 pages |
| ISBN10: | 0802125395 |
| ISBN13: | 9780802125392 |
| Tags: | Short Stories, Fiction Books, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Free Download, PDF Download |
| Language: | en |
| Physical Form: | PDF Book |
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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.
