An Untamed State

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Praise for Roxane Gay and An Untamed State
"'An Untamed State is a harrowing, suspensefiil novel about the connections between sexual violence and political rage, narrated in a voice at once traumatized and eerily controlled. Roxane Gay is a remarkable writer, an astute observer of Haitian society and a deeply sympathetic, unflinching chronicler of the compromises people make in order to survive under the most extreme conditions." —TOM PERROTTA
"From the astonishing first line to the final scene, An Untamed State is magical and dangerous. I could not put it down. Pay attention to Roxane Gay; she's here to stay." —TAYARI JONES
Untamed State is the kind of book you have to keep putting down because you can't believe how good it is. Awesome, powerful, impossible to ignore, Roxane Gay is a literary force of nature. An Untamed State arrives like a hurricane." —MAT JOHNSON
"[A] much-anticipated debut novel . . . brilliant, . . not since Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The... Tovább

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Praise for Roxane Gay and An Untamed State
"'An Untamed State is a harrowing, suspensefiil novel about the connections between sexual violence and political rage, narrated in a voice at once traumatized and eerily controlled. Roxane Gay is a remarkable writer, an astute observer of Haitian society and a deeply sympathetic, unflinching chronicler of the compromises people make in order to survive under the most extreme conditions." —TOM PERROTTA
"From the astonishing first line to the final scene, An Untamed State is magical and dangerous. I could not put it down. Pay attention to Roxane Gay; she's here to stay." —TAYARI JONES
Untamed State is the kind of book you have to keep putting down because you can't believe how good it is. Awesome, powerful, impossible to ignore, Roxane Gay is a literary force of nature. An Untamed State arrives like a hurricane." —MAT JOHNSON
"[A] much-anticipated debut novel . . . brilliant, . . not since Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper has an author so effectively captured the descent into mental instability."
—LIBRARYJOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)
"[Haiti's] better scribes, among them Edwidge Danticat, Frankétienne, Madison Smartt Bell, Lyonel Trouillot, and Marie Vieux Chauvet, have produced some of the best literature in the world. Add to their ranks Roxane Gay, a bright and shining star." —KYLE MINOR, ON AYITI

"y4w Untamed State is breathless, artful, disturbing, and original. I wont ever forget it." —MegWolitzer
Roxane Gay is a powerful new literary voice whose short stories and essays have earned her an enthusiastic audience. Flavorwire has already dubbed her one of 25 Women Poised to Lead the Culture and An Untamed State one of their 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2014. In this debut novel, she delivers a powerful, unflinching story of a Haitian American woman kidnapped for ransom, the privilege that made her a target, and the strength she must draw on to survive.
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 her father's standoff with the kidnappers stretches out into days, Mireille must endure the torments of a man who resents everything she represents.
An Untamed State is a tale of wealth in the face of crushing poverty and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce. It is the story of
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a willful woman attempting to find her way back to the person she once was, and of how redemption is found in the most unexpected of places. An Untamed State tsi2h\is\its Roxane Gay as a writer of prodigious, arresting talent.
ROXANE gay's writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2012, Virginia Quarterly Review, NOON, The New York Times Book Review, The Rumpus, Salon, and many others. Her first book, Ayiti, was a collection of poetry and short stories. She is the coeditor of RANK and essays editor for The Rumpus.
www. roxanegay. com
Twitter @rgay roxanegay.tumblr.com
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