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BOOK REVIEW: Ayiti by Roxane Gay

February 21, 2019

Not shy to call it as it is Gay uses her power of convincing narrative and the strength that comes from belief and struggle to breathe life into the voices in this superb book and to force us, on her beautiful affirming terms to revaluate our own clichéd misconceptions about Haitie and see it seething with potential and astonishingly pertinent lessons in life.

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BOOK REVIEW: Difficult Women: Roxane Gay

March 13, 2017

Gay takes us on a rollercoaster of lives, each seemingly dark but bursting with the light of strength, endurance and passion that allow the protagonists to rise above their circumstance and triumph, on their own terms, but their own rules. The protagonists are as wild and as wide ranging as the subject matter of the stories themselves.

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