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(Content note: sexual assault)
Finishing An Untamed State left me at a loss for words.
Roxane Gay has long been one of my favorite essayists. She writes with this superhuman sense of empathy, of pathos, of strength. All of that is on display in State, and I know I'll follow her wherever she wants to take me as a reader.
That said, An Untamed State is not an easy read. I knew going in that it wasn't going to be bunnies and fields full of flowers, but it is still more horrific than anything I've rea ...more
Finishing An Untamed State left me at a loss for words.
Roxane Gay has long been one of my favorite essayists. She writes with this superhuman sense of empathy, of pathos, of strength. All of that is on display in State, and I know I'll follow her wherever she wants to take me as a reader.
That said, An Untamed State is not an easy read. I knew going in that it wasn't going to be bunnies and fields full of flowers, but it is still more horrific than anything I've rea ...more
I'm so traumatized and consumed and off-kilter right now upon finishing this that I can't possibly write an articulate review. But this was a harrowing and phenomenal and beautiful work.
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I sobbed for basically the last 150 pages. Awful and worth it.
This was so intense that my jaw was clenched the whole time I was reading but I couldn't put it down.
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So good. So hard to read.
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