{"id":9043,"date":"2017-02-10T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=9043"},"modified":"2018-10-23T08:16:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:16:15","slug":"from-the-popular-reading-collection-difficult-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-popular-reading-collection-difficult-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Difficult Women by Roxane Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/02\/DifficultWomen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9045\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2017\/02\/DifficultWomen.jpg\" alt=\"DifficultWomen\" width=\"247\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a>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\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s world?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find <em>Difficult Women<\/em> and other great works in the Popular Reading Collection today!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019 fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-popular-reading-collection-difficult-women\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9048,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9043\/revisions\/9048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}