Difficult Women
Women the culture calls too much, written without any request for the reader's approval.
Roxane Gay’s story collection is populated by women the culture has decided are too much: too angry, too damaged, too willing to want things. Gay writes them without asking the reader to approve, and the range is wide, from realism to something closer to fable. The cumulative effect is an argument about who gets granted interiority in fiction.
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