{"product_id":"difficult-women","title":"Difficult Women","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDifficult Women\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRoxane Gay\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780802125392\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eGrove Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e272\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAward-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with \u003cem\u003eAn Untamed State\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling essay collection \u003cem\u003eBad Feminist\u003c\/em\u003e (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with \u003cem\u003eDifficult Women\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Difficult Women | Roxane Gay | Hardcover | 9780802125392 | Used: Like New | Fiction 1767221","offer_id":50735011987714,"sku":"1767221","price":21.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81qveoZrPKL.jpg?v=1791933431","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/difficult-women","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}