A review by amycrea
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

3.0

I'm a bit befuddled by all the rave reviews of this one. There are parts that are good--Gay does an amazing job of detailing the torture the main character goes through after being kidnapped for ransom in Haiti, and she details the resulting PTSD in a vivid, heartbreaking way. But many of the characters are cardboard and not believable; the relationship between the main character and her husband didn't ring true at all; the ending was right out of a Lifetime TV movie; and once again, we have a black woman being saved by a white woman. Problematic on many levels.