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Award-winning author and powerhouse talent Roxane Gay burst onto the scene with An Untamed State and the New York Times best-selling essay collection Bad Feminist (Harper Perennial). Gay returns with Difficult Women, a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection.
The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind. From a girls' fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America reminiscent of Merritt Tierce, Jamie Quatro, and Miranda July.
Featured Article: Outstanding Black Authors Across Various Genres and Styles
Stories have the power not only to transport us, but to allow us to connect, understand, and feel represented. The work of phenomenal Black authors—like those featured in this list—has expanded the ambition, scope, and perspective of storytelling. These must-hear titles from some of the best Black authors of all time are also indisputably some of the most remarkable works of literature in both the contemporary and historical canon.
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Graceful Burdens
- Out of Line collection
- De: Roxane Gay
- Narrado por: Samira Wiley
- Duración: 45 m
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A trip to the library prompts one woman to question her fate in this galvanizing short story. For a woman like Hadley, deemed not acceptable to procreate, there’s only one recourse. Unlicensed for motherhood, she can alleviate her grief and frustration at a “baby library,” where a curiously endless supply of infants is available for a two-week loan. But the borrowed life that serves as a temporary balm leads to a journey of self-discovery that will forever change the direction of Hadley’s future.
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Amazingly Unexpected
- De Valencia Williams en 03-05-21
De: Roxane Gay
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The Witches Are Coming
- De: Lindy West
- Narrado por: Lindy West
- Duración: 6 h y 27 m
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From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: This is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Coming, firebrand author of the New York Times best-selling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series Shrill Lindy West turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've got one.
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Starts strong then wanders
- De Dawn en 01-09-20
De: Lindy West
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Ain't I a Woman
- Black Women and Feminism (2nd Edition)
- De: bell hooks
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 8 h y 55 m
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A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must for all those interested in the nature of Black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on Black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this work a critical place in every feminist scholar's library.
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Informative
- De Cj James en 07-23-19
De: bell hooks
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
- Crossing Press Feminist Series, Book 1
- De: Audre Lorde
- Narrado por: Robin Eller
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature. In this charged collection of 15 essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope.
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One of the most important things I have ever listened to.
- De Jayrod en 11-16-16
De: Audre Lorde
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I Feel Bad About My Neck
- And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
- De: Nora Ephron
- Narrado por: Nora Ephron
- Duración: 3 h y 50 m
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With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
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Don't make me get out of the car...
- De Kestrel en 10-09-06
De: Nora Ephron
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Feminism Is for Everybody
- Passionate Politics
- De: bell hooks
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
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What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, Bell Hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, Hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives - to see that feminism is for everybody.
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Excellent Introduction to Feminism
- De Listens-a-lot en 03-29-18
De: bell hooks
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
- Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
- De: Michele Filgate
- Narrado por: Michele Filgate, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Roger Casey, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 14 m
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As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers.
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Now I’m healing
- De wonderwoman0414 en 08-24-21
De: Michele Filgate
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Hello, Friends!
- Stories of Dating, Destiny & Day Jobs
- De: Dulcé Sloan
- Narrado por: Dulcé Sloan
- Duración: 5 h y 33 m
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Welcome to a comedic trip through the life of one of the country’s most exciting comedians. Meet Dulcé Sloan, whose life has been an incredible journey filled with lessons and laughter. In addition to doing stand-up around the world, Dulcé is a trained actor, singer, and has been a correspondent on The Daily Show. Dulcé's first memoir is organized into essays from her life. From a childhood moving between cities, starting her own business selling toys at a Miami flea market, to being a Black kid in a predominately White school, she’s always used her masterful wit to challenge the status quo.
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Indomitable, phenomenal woman … but loud.
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 06-14-24
De: Dulcé Sloan
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
- A Novel (Vintage International)
- De: James Baldwin, Roxane Gay - introduction
- Narrado por: Roxane Gay, Joe Morton
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem.
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Haunting
- De DAN en 08-22-24
De: James Baldwin, y otros
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The Wren, the Wren
- De: Anne Enright
- Narrado por: Anne Enright, Aoife Duffin, Owen Roe, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel’s orderly home to find her own voice as a writer (mostly online, ghost-blogging for an influencer) and to live a poetical life. As she chases obsessive love, damage, and transcendence, in Dublin and beyond, her grandfather’s poetry seems to guide her home.
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I couldn’t get past the first hour.
- De Ruth Glass en 12-07-23
De: Anne Enright
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Americanah
- A Novel
- De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 18 h y 44 m
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Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be Black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.
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Dues race matter?
- De Shen Valley CJ en 08-13-24
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All About Love
- New Visions
- De: bell hooks
- Narrado por: January LaVoy
- Duración: 6 h y 10 m
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“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love.
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Conclusory Stream of Consciousness Musings
- De Stephanie H. en 01-09-24
De: bell hooks
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- Nicole
- 05-30-22
Unique
Not at all what I was expecting. But I loved it. Definitely a heavy book with lots of triggers.
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- Susan Perry Manson
- 01-05-21
Challenging and powerful
Trigger warning: there are many uncomfortable topics explored but ultimately you come away with a new perspective on the definition of a difficult woman.
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- Antoinette
- 05-22-17
Intense!
I deeply admire Dr. Gay's writing and how unflinching she is in handling controversial topics. I'm down for anything she writes.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-04-17
Heart wrenching stories
Each story is so different but they all tie you in with their beautiful and difficult truth.
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- Stephanie F. Gustave
- 09-17-20
Love the stories and format
Absolutely love the stories and the backgrounds fleshed out of each women. A must listen for any lover of shifting perspectives in a novel.
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- Chris J. Thompson
- 12-04-17
A sleeper hit
This entire book reminds me of Common's Electric Circus. there are a bunch of things going on, but they together in a grand masterpiece, but sadly, people slept on it despite its genius.
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- phyncke
- 08-02-18
Exquisitely done...
I really cannot say I enjoyed this but I am glad I listened to this book. It is as real as it gets - about all sorts of different women's experiences - differing perspectives. The pleasure, the pain, the good and the bad and the ugly. Raw and painful. So well done. Some surrealism and AU in here for good measure. Roxane Gay is a major force and it shows in this collection of stories. The narration is light and that lets the power shine through. Don't want to give anything away here. Do yourself a favor and read this collection.
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- S.
- 03-09-22
Heartbreakingly honest.
I listened through the whole thing. I thought about my sisters, my friends, and my daughter. I thought about my clients and their mothers and daughters. It is a fierce thing to be female.
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- Akilah M.
- 10-21-21
This Moved me beyond words.
I can't say enough for this book. Love listening so much I had to actually buy the paperback. I am so touched by the sincerity in each story. I found myself being able to come to terms with a lot just reading this. And Robin Miles your narration was perfect for this.
Harsh, beautiful, striking, raw, and just.... amazing.
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- LATOYA LEWIS
- 08-31-20
Difficult Women
I don't understand the title of the book, when it's had short story after story or strong women. talking about perseverance, making it through bad marriages, abuse, rape, kidnapping, deaths, love lost, still-borns, children dying. The title devalues women, great book. #book29of2020 #bookworm #whatsnext
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