{"product_id":"difficult-women-9780802125392","title":"Difficult Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAward-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with \u003cem\u003eAn Untamed State\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling essay collection \u003cem\u003eBad Feminist\u003c\/em\u003e (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with \u003cem\u003eDifficult Women\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom a girls' fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America reminiscent of Merritt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eROXANE GAY\u003c\/strong\u003e is also the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of the memoir \u003cem\u003eHunger\u003c\/em\u003e; the story collection\u003cem\u003e Difficult Women\u003c\/em\u003e; the novel \u003cem\u003eAn Untamed State\u003c\/em\u003e, which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; the essay collection \u003cem\u003eBad Feminist\u003c\/em\u003e; and several comic books in Marvel's \u003cem\u003eBlack Panther: World of Wakanda\u003c\/em\u003e series. She is a recipient of the PEN Center USA Freedom to Write Award, among other honors. She divides her time between Indiana and Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50461109846290,"sku":"9780802125392","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_273c98fc-4901-4b40-a838-b5851754502b.jpg?v=1730057211","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/difficult-women-9780802125392","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}