Difficult Women

CW: I think every story in this is about either sexual assault or miscarriage...maybe not every but definitely most of them

Roxane Gay is a wonderful, powerful writer, of course, and I was so looking forward to reading this book! I...won't say I enjoyed reading this, exactly, since most of the stories are pretty heavy. But I appreciated the weight of her words and the resonance I felt with these fictional difficult women, for all their struggles and small victories (and large ones)

ps I know not to judge a book by what I wish it was, rather than what it actually is, but also....I hope she does another essay collection soon b/c that is my true jam