The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister’s marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind. From a girls’ fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America reminiscent of Merritt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July.
I will follow you —
Water, all its weight —
The mark of Cain —
Difficult women —
FLORIDA —
La negra blanca —
Baby arm —
North country —
How —
Requiem for a glass heart —
In the event of my father’s death —
Break all the way down —
Bad priest —
Open marriage —
A pat —
Best features —
Bone density —
I am a knife —
The sacrifice of darkness —
Noble things —
Strange gods
Weight | 0.4 kg |
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ISBN | 9780802125392 |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Publication Year | 2017 |
Pages | 260 |
Format | Hardcover |