Summary
Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son—by all appearances, a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day when Mireille is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father’s Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom. As it becomes clear her father intend…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472119827 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472119827 |
| Author: | Roxane Gay |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 2 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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An Untamed State is breathless, artful, disturbing and original. I won’t ever forget it.
AN UNTAMED STATE is breathless, artful, disturbing and original. I won’t ever forget it. - Meg Wolitzer, author of The Interestings
Finished @rgay’s gripping and brilliant novel AN UNTAMED STATE last night. It resists 140-character analysis, but wow. - TwitterOnce you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. AN UNTAMED STATE is a novel of hope intermingled with fear, a book about possibilities mixed with horror and despair. It is written at a pace that will match your racing. - Edwidge Danticat, author of Breath, Eyes, Memory and The Dew BreakerRoxane Gay’s riveting debut, AN UNTAMED STATE, captivates from its opening sentence and doesn’t let go … So let this be the year of Roxane Gay: You’ll tear through An Untamed State, but ponder it for long after. - Time MagazineI read An Untamed State in one sitting I realize that it’s absolutely cliche to say “I couldn’t put it down” but from the other reviews I’ve seen of the book, I can see that I’m not alone in that sentiment. - GuardianGay’s novel puts a face, a name and especially a voice to the rampant global violence against women. - Los Angeles TimesA fairy tale … its complex and fragile moral arrived at through great pain and high cost… . Perhaps Haiti, too, is a beautiful princess, well-versed in the vagaries of men, still searching for a happily ever after. - New York Times Book ReviewA smart, searing novel. - Washington PostAbout The Author
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is the author of An Untamed State, Bad Feminist and the story collection Ayiti. Her work has also appeared in Glamour, Best American Short Stories, and the New York Times Book Review. She is the co-editor of PANK.
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