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. 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.
Follow the stories of a pair of sisters, a woman married to an imposter, a stripper putting herself through college, and a colored engineer as they each face struggles uniquely their own. Can they make it in a man’s world?
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