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3.99 AVERAGE
3.99 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
This was a beautiful/horrible collection of stories. I love Roxane Gay (1 n) more every time I read or hear anything from her. I think that these stories are all meditations/explorations on what happens to us after a trauma. How do we go on? Highly recommended.
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
2 stars.
cool themes but i genuinely hated the experience of reading it :)
cool themes but i genuinely hated the experience of reading it :)
Well written short stories with often very disturbing subjects or characters. A lot of unhealthy sexual relationships. I eventually couldn't take any more and didn't finish it.
Des femmes et leurs traumas. Des femmes et leurs biais. Rien de romancé ; tout est cru, choquant, dégueulasse. Tout est vrai.
Very intense collection of short stories. Difficult Women did not present the story I had in my head but the title still fits.
Urgent, forceful. The prose moves like a flooding river--one is compelled to keep reading--can't wait to see what's coming next. Stories that focused on motherhood were always haunting--we may never recover from the loss of a child--but often hopeful. The power to move on in the face of pain and numbness. All stories featured violence (often male on female) and sex. Beautiful portrayals of sisterhood; of the way that difficult women are forced to suffer--atone--for their existence (whereas, perhaps, men are not?). The men were sometimes caricatures--two-dimensional ogres designed only to do evil. No texture or nuance; hard to believe they were real men. Point in case--who is the rich man in La Negra Blanca with his taboo desire for black flesh? He lacked only a moustache to twiddle and an evil laugh. Highlights included The Mark of Cain; North Country; How; Requiem for a Glass Heart; Break All The Way Down; I Am A Knife; Strange Gods.
Massive trigger warnings for this book--it was a lot more graphic than I was expecting, and not the ideal book to be reading on my public transit commute, but my goodness was the writing and were the stories powerful. I'll look forward to reading more of Gay's work.