A tribute not only to difficult women, but also to the circumstances that made them that way."-BUST Magazine "Like Joyce Carol Oates' Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? or Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is fiction pressed through a sieve, leaving only the canniest truths behind. powerful."-Arizona Daily Sun "A master of the short story. Gay writes of chances missed and unexpected joy, love gone awry or resurrected, and the slivers of hope that keep these fascinating women alive."-Boston Globe "The language is stark yet meaty it lives with you the way memories do, in the deepest crevices of the body and mind. With Difficult Women, you really have no idea what's going to happen next."-New York Times Book Review "Because Gay is such a vivid writer, her stories have a remarkable visual sweep. It feels like the book we have been waiting for Gay to write."-Los Angeles Times "Gay has fun with these ladies. The stories here are myriad, inviting comparisons to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie."-Houston Chronicle "There's a distinct echo of Angela Carter or Helen Oyeyemi at play dark fables and twisted morality tales sit alongside the contemporary and the realistic. They are us."-USA Today (4/4 stars) "Sharp, poignant and daring. They are our mothers, sisters and partners. Praise for Difficult Women "The characters who inhabit Difficult Women.
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