03908cam a2200349 4500 282319639 TxAuBib 20170114120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802189646 0802189644 B01LFQ3KWM Amazon 0383fe65-a091-4c89-b640-f53343334868 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2952592 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gay, Roxane. Difficult Women [Libby eBook]. Grove/Atlantic, Inc., 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1949kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1949kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with <i>An Untamed State</i> and the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling essay collection <i>Bad Feminist</i> (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with <i>Difficult Women</i>, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection.<br /> 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.</p>. HTML:<p>October 24, 2016<br /> Gay (<em>Bad Feminist</em>) pens a powerful collection of short stories about difficult, troubled, headstrong, and unconventional women. “I Will Follow You” tracks the bond of two adult sisters who refuse to live in fear after being kidnapped and assaulted as young girls. In “The Mark of Cain,” a wife pretends not to know that her abusive husband has swapped places with his kinder identical twin, who doesn’t beat her. The darkly humorous title story outlines the traits of different types of “difficult women” in flash-style vignettes. A jilted woman recovering from delivering a stillborn child finds love far from her home and past in “North Country.” And in “Break All the Way Down,” a couple learns to overcome their guilt and grief over the death of their son when they are handed a new child by a mother who can’t care for her. Whether focusing on assault survivors, single mothers, or women who drown their guilt in wine and bad boyfriends, Gay’s fantastic collection is challenging, quirky, and memorable. <em>Agent: Maria Massie, Lippincott Massie McQuilkin.</em></p>. Publisher's Weekly. Short Stories. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-01-13 23:00:02. http://nh.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=0383fe65-a091-4c89-b640-f53343334868 https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0383fe65-a091-4c89-b640-f53343334868&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0383fe65-a091-4c89-b640-f53343334868&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=0383fe65-a091-4c89-b640-f53343334868&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)