Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times bestselling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection.
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.
發表於2024-12-24
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Difficult Women是一本更灰暗的書。開篇讓我想起瞭《房思琪的初戀樂園》,無法停止下來的性侵。自我憎惡、放棄……太苦瞭,苦得沒邊瞭。但我不知如何對比這本書同中文裏麵的故事,有典型美國寫作班的風格,成熟,也有點用力過猛的情緒掌控(試圖)。這本幾乎是準備晚餐時候聽的,像是知乎”你聽過的最悲慘的女人”,有點殘忍。
評分Difficult Women是一本更灰暗的書。開篇讓我想起瞭《房思琪的初戀樂園》,無法停止下來的性侵。自我憎惡、放棄……太苦瞭,苦得沒邊瞭。但我不知如何對比這本書同中文裏麵的故事,有典型美國寫作班的風格,成熟,也有點用力過猛的情緒掌控(試圖)。這本幾乎是準備晚餐時候聽的,像是知乎”你聽過的最悲慘的女人”,有點殘忍。
評分Women are difficult like venison is hard to digest, but nothing could prevent either from being hunted. The theme gets old, but homosapiens as a species never learns.
評分生活無法永遠都是蜜糖。很多人不喜歡這本書因為所有的故事都讓人感到壓抑、痛苦、以及絕望。故事中的女人們並不是人們所預期的那樣的strong women,她們都是damaged、broken、以及hopeless。不同於成功勵誌學,這本書讓我們清醒。
評分讀瞭一半不到實在讀不下去,太難看瞭。這麼多短篇寫的都是同一個女人;爸酗酒,媽跑瞭,丈夫打人,孩子死瞭。有一點點點像卡佛;人物的痛苦和絕望很膚淺,最要命的是自己還沉溺於享受這種膚淺的痛苦。
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