Difficult Women
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Difficult Women is a short story collection by Roxane Gay that explores the lives, traumas, and resilience of complex, flawed, and multifaceted women.
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| instanceOf |
book
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short story collection → |
| author |
Roxane Gay
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| countryOfPublication |
United States
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| criticalReception |
generally positive reviews
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| focusesOn |
complex women characters
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flawed women → multifaceted women → |
| genre |
feminist fiction
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literary fiction → short stories → |
| hasForm |
short fiction
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| hasISBN |
9780802125392
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| hasPart |
short story "Baby Arm"
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short story "Bad Priest" → short story "Break All the Way Down" → short story "Difficult Women" → short story "Florida" → short story "How" → short story "I Will Follow You" → short story "In the Event of My Father’s Death" → short story "La Negra Blanca" → short story "Noble Things" → short story "North Country" → short story "Open Marriage" → short story "Requiem for a Glass Heart" → short story "Strange Gods" → short story "The Sacrifice of Darkness" → short story "Water, All Its Weight" → |
| hasTheme |
emotional complexity
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female agency → gender roles → grief → identity → marriage → power dynamics → race and class → relationships → resilience → sexual violence → survival → trauma → trauma recovery → violence → women's lives → |
| language |
English
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| literaryMovement |
contemporary American literature
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| notableFor |
exploration of trauma and resilience
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portrayal of women's interior lives → |
| publicationYear |
2017
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| publisher |
Grove Press
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Difficult Women
("short story "Difficult Women"")
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Roxane Gay
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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