Difficult Women
(By Roxane Gay)
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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.
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”
