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Announcing Roxane Gay & Sari Botton at Community Bookstore

On January 30, 2014 By Tobias Carroll

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As longtime admirers of Roxane Gay‘s fiction, essays, and criticism, we are honored to be hosting her at Community Bookstore. Her first novel, An Untamed State, is the story of a kidnapping in Haiti, and its aftermath. Her publisher describes it as follows:

Mireille Duval Jameson is living a fairy tale. The strong-willed youngest daughter of one of Haiti’s richest sons, she has an adoring husband, a precocious infant son, by all appearances a perfect life. The fairy tale ends one day when Mireille is kidnapped in broad daylight by a gang of heavily armed men in front of her father’s Port-au-Prince estate. Held captive by a man who calls himself the Commander, Mireille waits for her father to pay her ransom. As it becomes clear her father intends to resist the kidnappers, Mireille must endure the torments of a man who resents everything she represents.

For this event, Roxane Gay will be in conversation with Sari Botton.

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