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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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
short story collection
author Roxane Gay
countryOfPublication United States
criticalReception generally positive reviews
focusesOn complex women characters
flawed women
multifaceted women
genre feminist fiction
literary fiction
short stories
hasForm short fiction
hasISBN 9780802125392
hasPart short story "Baby Arm"
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
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
literaryMovement contemporary American literature
notableFor exploration of trauma and resilience
portrayal of women's interior lives
publicationYear 2017
publisher Grove Press

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Difficult Women ("short story "Difficult Women"")
hasPart
Roxane Gay
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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