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'Difficult Women by Roxane Gay review – bold feminist stories'. ^ 'Fiction Book Review: Difficult Women by Roxane Gay.'Author Roxane Gay explains the difficulty in trying to publish 'Difficult Women' '. Difficult Women (2017) is a collection of short stories by American writer and academic Roxane Gay. 'Roxane Gay on Writing Difficult Women and Her Outlook on 2017'. ^ Felsenthal, Julia (January 3, 2017).'Roxane Gay and Randa Jarrar talk Twitter, 'Difficult Women' and kink in L.A.' Los Angeles Times. In 2018, Difficult Women was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. intersecting identities mold and shape women’s experiences.' Jones gave Difficult Women four (of four) stars, noting Gay's 'deft touch with how. Reviewing the collection in The Washington Post, Megan Mayhew Bergman said Gay's 'real gift to readers in Difficult Women is her ability to marry her well-known intellectual concerns with good storytelling.' In USA Today, Jaleesa M. Reception ĭifficult Women received favorable reviews from critics. Grove Press published the 272-page collection on January 3, 2017. Speaking at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Gay recounted, 'Editors said, 'we love but it makes me want to kill myself. Gay has described being challenged by publishers in the development of the collection owing to the difficult material the book covers. 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.' Development and publication In Vogue, Julia Fesenthal characterized Difficult Women as 'a misogynist's taxonomy of the opposite sex. Difficult Women is a 2017 short story collection by Roxane Gay.