An Untamed State is a novel of hope intermingled with fear, a book about possibilities mixed with horror and despair,' (Edwidge Danticat).
'Clear your schedule now! Once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. Elizabeth McCracken compared reading Bad Feminist to 'staying up agreeing and arguing with the smartest person you've ever met.' Gay, a first-generation Haitian-American raised in the Midwest, is also author of the novel An Untamed State, a harrowing, powerful story of a privileged woman kidnapped for ransom in Haiti more broadly, it's a meditation on political and sexual power and the rage boiling in that country of extreme poverty. 'A strikingly fresh cultural critic' (Ron Charles, The Washington Post,) novelist and essayist Roxane Gay took the literary world by storm with her collection, Bad Feminist.
