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A review by meghan111
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
4.0
I COULD NOT PUT THIS DOWN. The story of a Haitian-American woman visiting family in Haiti, who is kidnapped, held for ransom for almost two weeks, and then released. It's brutal in describing her captivity and its aftermath, and also felt incredibly emotionally honest in describing her relationship with her white husband, both before and after the kidnapping.
Mireille lives in the US, but goes back to Haiti to visit her wealthy family in their compound, traveling with her husband and 10-month-old son. She is kidnapped out of a car one day by armed men in Land Rovers. They hold her ransom so that her father will pay them money for her release, but her father refuses to negotiate.
Mireille lives in the US, but goes back to Haiti to visit her wealthy family in their compound, traveling with her husband and 10-month-old son. She is kidnapped out of a car one day by armed men in Land Rovers. They hold her ransom so that her father will pay them money for her release, but her father refuses to negotiate.