An Untamed State - Hardcover

Gay, Roxane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1472119819 ISBN 13: 9781472119810

Publisher: Corsair, 2015

Synopsis

Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day when Mireille is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father’s Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom. As it becomes clear her father intends to resist the kidnappers, Mireille must endure the torments of a man who resents everything she represents.

An Untamed State is a novel of privilege in the face of crushing poverty, and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce. It is the story of a wilful woman attempting to find her way back to the person she once was, and of how redemption is found in the most unexpected of places. An Untamed State establishes Roxane Gay as a writer of prodigious, arresting talent.

About this title

About the Author

Roxane Gay is the author of An Untamed State, Bad Feminist and the story collection Ayiti. Her work has also appeared in Glamour, Best American Short Stories, and the New York Times Book Review. She is the co-editor of PANK.

From the Back Cover

Praise for An Untamed State

‘Gripping and brilliant.’ John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars

‘A smart, searing novel.’ Washington Post

‘Breathless, artful, disturbing and original.’ Meg Wolitzer

‘Captivates from its opening sentence and doesn’t let go.’ Time Magazine

‘Written at a pace that will match your racing heart.’ Edwidge Danticat

From the Inside Flap

Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life.

The fairy tale ends one day when Mireille is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men, in front of her father’s Port au Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself The Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom. As it becomes clear her father intends to resist the kidnappers, Mireille must endure the torments of a man who resents everything she represents.

An Untamed State is a novel of privilege in the face of crushing poverty, and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce. It is the story of a wilful woman attempting to find her way back to the person she once was, and of how redemption is found in the most unexpected of places.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Corsair
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472119819
• ISBN 13: 9781472119810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384