An Untamed State
A Thriller, Literary Fiction, Feminism book. I am not easy to love but I am well loved. I try to...
Roxane Gay is a powerful new literary voice whose short stories and essays have already earned her an enthusiastic audience. In An Untamed State, she delivers an assured debut about a woman kidnapped for ransom, her captivity as her father refuses to pay and her husband fights for her release over thirteen days, and her struggle to come to terms with the ordeal in its aftermath.Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day when Mireille is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father’s Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom. As it becomes clear her father intends to resist the kidnappers, Mireille must endure the torments of a man who resents everything she represents.An Untamed State is a novel of privilege in the face of crushing poverty,...
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- Pages: 368 pages
- ISBN: 9780802122513 / 802122515
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I shouted, This is not right, knowing my words were useless. Theres no room for such distinctions in a country where too many people have to claw for what they need and still have nothing to hold. My Roxane Gay, An Untamed State What is truly terrifying is the exact knowledge of what will come and being unable to save yourself from it. Grabbing Roxane Gay, An Untamed State I am not easy to love but I am well loved. I try to love well in return. Roxane Gay, An Untamed State
Look, I know this is fiction, but if you told me that this was actually a memoir published as fiction, I would believe it. Every second of this book feels like reality. All the senses are triggered: You feel everything, hear everything, smell everything, taste everything. Miri once lived a perfect fairy tale life. And then she visited... "Once upon a time, in a far away land, I was kidnapped by a band of fearless yet terrified young men ... They held me captive for thirteen days. They wanted to break me."It is a great opening, told like a tragic fairytale by the victim but one that sadly the story does not get anywhere near the early promise. Haitian - American Mireille,... The reviews and cover blurbs led me to expect a serious literary tale of kidnapping and the class divisions between the wealthy and poor in Haiti. But what I got instead was a Lifetime movie of the week. (There's certainly nothing wrong with Lifetime movies if you know that's what to expect). Chapters alternated between the present...
