Difficult Women (book)
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| Author | Roxane Gay |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Short fiction |
| Publisher | Grove |
Publication date | January 3, 2017 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 272 |
| ISBN | 978-0-8021-2539-2 |
Difficult Women is a 2017 short story collection by Roxane Gay.[1]
In Vogue, Julia Fesenthal characterized Difficult Women as "a misogynist's taxonomy of the opposite sex. On the narrator's short list: loose women, frigid women, crazy women, mothers, and, finally, dead girls," depicted in stories "woven through with strands of magical realism."[2]
Development and publication
Gay has described being challenged by publishers in the development of the collection owing to the difficult material the book covers. Speaking at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Gay recounted, "Editors said, 'we love [Difficult Women] but it makes me want to kill myself.'"[3]
Grove Press published the 272-page collection on January 3, 2017.[4]