Difficult Women

A national bestseller from the “prolific and exceptionally insightful” (Globe and Mail) Roxane Gay,Difficult Womenis a collection of stories of rare force that paints a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America.

Difficult Womentells 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 have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and, grown now, 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 gives voice to a chorus of unforgettable women in a scintillating collection reminiscent of Merritt Tierce, Anne Enright, and Miranda July.

Roxane Gayis also theNew York Timesbestselling author of the memoirHunger; the story collectionDifficult Women; the novelAn Untamed State, which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; the essay collectionBad Feminist; and several comic books in Marvel’sBlack Panther: World of Wakandaseries. She is a recipient of the PEN Center USA Freedom to Write Award, among other honors. She divides her time between Indiana and Los Angeles.

• Publisher:Grove Press; Reprint edition (November 14, 2017)
• Language:English
• Paperback:272 pages
• ISBN-10:0802127371
• ISBN-13:9780802127372
• Item Weight:10.2 ounces
• Dimensions:5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches