Bad Femist: Essays: 9780062695697: Gay, Roxane: Books

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• ROXANE GAY
• ROXANE GAY STARTS PUBLISHG IMPRT WH GROVE ATLANTIC

ROXANE GAY

About the AuthorRoxane Gay’s wrg appears Bt Amerin Mystery Stori 2014, Bt Amerin Short Stori 2012, Bt Sex Wrg 2012, Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, T Hoe, Oxford Amerin, Amerin Short Fictn, Virgia Quarterly Review, and many others. And on nearly every page, Gay’s raw, powerful prose plants a flag, facg down s of shame and self-loathg by reclaimg the body she never should have had to lose. Gay, live your life.

Gay has a vivid, telegraphic wrg style, which serv her well.

We all need to hear what Gay has to say the pag.... Gay says hers is not a succs story bee ’s not the weight-loss story our culture mands, but her breakg of her own silence, her movement om shame and self-loathg toward honorg and fivg and rg for herself, is self a profound victory.

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” — San Francis Chronicle“Hunger is Gay at her most laceratg and probg.... Anyone faiar wh Gay’s books or tweets knows she also wields a dagger-sharp w.

A memoir that’s so brave, so raw, feels as if [Gay]’s entstg you wh her soul. Gay is one of our most val sayists and crics. Gay ni that hers is a story of “triumph, ” but rears will be hard prsed to fd a better word.

” — Ron Charl, Washgton Post“Roxane Gay is the brilliant girl-next-door: your bt iend and your sharpt cric.... ” — People“[Gay is] hilar. ” — Tanvi Misra, Atlantic, "The Bt Book I Read This Year" Roxane Gay is the thor of the say llectn Bad Femist, which was a New York Tim btseller; the novel An Untamed State, a falist for the Dayton Peace Prize; the memoir Hunger, which was a New York Tim btseller and received a Natnal Book Crics Circle catn; and the short story llectns Difficult Women and Ayi.

” — Ron Charl, Washgton Post“It’s no surprise that Roxane Gay—thor, sayist and sharp observer of everythg pop culture we’re supposed to be too ol to like—has wrten such a wng book.... At s bt, the book offers Gay’s distctive voice as both shield and a weapon agast social norms jt beggg for examatn.

Perfectly imperfect, Gay is an unfettable voice, g at jt the right time. A New York Tim bt-seller, Bad Femist tablish Gay as one of our foremost cultural crics and femist thkers.

” — O, the Oprah Magaze, 10 Tl to Pick Up Now“Roxane Gay is the brilliant girl-next-door: your bt iend and your sharpt cric....

Whatever her topic, Gay’s provotive says stand out for their bravery, w, and emotnal honty. ” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Toss Roxane Gay’s llectn of wty, thoughtful says, Bad Femist to your tote bag.

Wh mgs on everythg om Sweet Valley High to the lor pk, Gay explor the ia of beg a femist, even when you’re full of ntradictns. ” — Self, "Smart beach-read alert"“Gay’s says are nsistently smart and provotive....

” — Jennifer Weer's 10 bt beach reads, USA Today“An assortment of il, yet astute says that touch on Gay’s personal evolutn as a woman, popular culture throughout the recent past, and the state of femism today.