An Untamed State

Roxane Gay 2014

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
trauma literary fiction survival psychological

Our Take

Mireille is kidnapped in Haiti and the ransom her father refuses to pay is measured in days of torture. Gay writes trauma as an unreliable narrator itself — the before and after are different countries, and Mireille cannot be trusted to tell you which one she inhabits.

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