{"product_id":"9780802125392","title":"Difficult Women","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[Roxane Gay] writes candidly, vividly, and necessarily . . . You will find it difficult to resist her flawless pacing [and] sharp, clear prose.” —Ariel Gonzalez, \u003ci\u003eThe Miami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e on \u003ci\u003eAn Untamed State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAward-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with \u003ci\u003eAn Untamed State\u003c\/i\u003e—which earned rave reviews and was selected as one of the best books of the year by the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e—and her \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling essay collection \u003ci\u003eBad Feminist\u003c\/i\u003e (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with \u003ci\u003eStrange Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection.\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 marriage of one of them. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Atlantic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011369353456,"sku":"9780802125392","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802125392_p0.jpg?v=1763726316","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802125392","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}