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The most challenging thing was what is challenging with every book - finding the confidence to send these stories out into the world and make myself vulnerable like that. What was the most challenging thing about writing this book? I brought those stories together as a collection because I saw a really interesting connective thread between all the stories, how they largely focused on women who might be seen as difficult but were mostly independent and complicated and interesting. I wrote the stories in Difficult Women over several years. She is also the author of “World of Wakanda” for Marvel. She is the author of the books “Ayiti,” “An Untamed State,” the New York Times bestselling “Bad Feminist,” the nationally bestselling “Difficult Women” and New York Times bestselling “Hunger: A Memoir of My Body”. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.
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Roxane Gay’s writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, Harper’s Bazaar, A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. From a girls’ fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay gives voice to a chorus of unforgettable women in a scintillating collection reminiscent of Merritt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July.
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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. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. 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. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. 2022 LONGLIST AUTHOR BIOS & BOOK SUMMARIES.Aspen Institute Event Health & Safety Standards.