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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.
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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. Author and sayist Roxane Gay is celebrated for her cisive mentary on inty and culture, as well as for her btsellg nonfictn and short story llectns.