From 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.'Gay brings the powerful voice that flows through her work as a novelist and cultural critic to the 21 short stories in her first collection. 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. Det är, helt enkelt, en sann historia.'Roxane Gay skriver med brutal ärlighet och stort mod om sin kropp och sin hunger, om det trauma som drabbade henne som ung flicka och som förändrade allt. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other.Ī stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. 'Det finns inget triumferande i berättelsen om min kropp. 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. 'Phenomenally powerful and beautifully written' the GuardianThe women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail.
