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explorastorynz 's review for:

Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
2.0

Roxanne Gay is an incredible writer.
Despite finding maybe one likeable character in the whole book, it still read so well that I was through 175 pages in an afternoon.
But the despair and despondency just made it super hard for me to connect. If I wasn't bawling, I felt somewhat indifferent.
Especially because this felt to me like it was more about the men who made the lives of these women difficult, rather than about the women themselves?
But its interesting to see the other reviews and what others got out of it. Maybe I just wasn't in the right space.