The first book om wrer Roxane Gay is a story of trma and s terrifyg aftermath
Contents:
- AN UNTAMED STATE BY ROXANE GAY REVIEW – ‘AN UNFLCHG PORTRAYAL OF SEXUAL AND SPIRUAL VLENCE’
- REVIEW: ROXANE GAY'S RIVETG DEBUT NOVEL AN UNTAMED STATE
AN UNTAMED STATE BY ROXANE GAY REVIEW – ‘AN UNFLCHG PORTRAYAL OF SEXUAL AND SPIRUAL VLENCE’
Roxane Gay is a remarkable wrer, an astute observer of Haian society and a eply sympathetic, unflchg chronicler of the promis people make orr to survive unr the most extreme Perrota • Ltle Children and Ne Inch. Awome, powerful, impossible to ignore, Roxane Gay is a lerary force of nature. Pay attentn to Roxane Gay; she’s here to Jon • Silver Sparrow and Leavg Atlanta.
REVIEW: ROXANE GAY'S RIVETG DEBUT NOVEL AN UNTAMED STATE
Roxane Gay’s strikg but novel, “An Untamed State, ” is a fairy tale this ve, s plex and agile moral arrived at through great pa and high st. An assistant profsor of English at Eastern Illois Universy, Gay is also the thor of a llectn, “Ayi, ” and a equent ntributor to Salon and The Rump.
We want to look away, as the movi, but ’s impossible to read wh our ey is a untry of “startlg ntrasts, ” Gay wr, “so much bety, so much btaly. Gay skillfully weav multiple narrativ among the lurid gang rape and torture scen: the urtship of Mireille’s parents (self a fairy tale), amed si an immigrant story of the Amerin dream (another fairy tale); a childhood wh close-kn siblgs and their plited experienc of Midwtern Amerin life and Haian summers; the tumultuo and charmg urtship of Mireille and her hband, Michael. By Roxane Gay.