
An Untamed State
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Robin Miles
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Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is a powerful new literary voice whose short stories and essays have already earned her an enthusiastic audience. In An Untamed State, she delivers an assured debut about a woman kidnapped for ransom, her captivity as her father refuses to pay and her husband fights for her release over 13 days, and her struggle to come to terms with the ordeal in its aftermath.
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.
An Untamed State is a novel of privilege in the face of crushing poverty, and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce. It is the story of a willful woman attempting to find her way back to the person she once was, and of how redemption is found in the most unexpected of places.
©2014 Roxane Gay. Recorded by arrangement with Grove/Atlantic, Inc. (P)2014 Audible, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Hard to listen to but so important
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I do warn anyone who is considering purchasing this about the graphic nature of some of the chapters. It's very detailed about what the main character has done to her when kidnapped, so if this is something that could be too much for you, I would steer away from this title. Other than that, I highly recommend this as it is one of the best books I've read in a while.
A beatiful story about surviving.
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Captivating!
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Some will read this book and come away with it being a story about a lawyer vacationing with her husband in Haiti who is kidnapped and abused. Others will come away with the survival of a woman who was violently stripped of her self-worth. The core of this book is in the eye of reader.
It’s a hard book to read for the violent incident is brutal and takes up better than one third of the book. Call me Pollyanna, if you must, but I read for entertainment. This book was not enjoyable - nor should it be. One does not have to look far to see unrestrained assaults happening on a variety of levels.Paying to listen to an extra eleven and an a half hours of turbulence, no matter how well written, was not the entertainment I was looking for. I don't feel that I am enlightened from reading it, nor will this story be in my thoughts for a long time.
Now how does one rate a book like this?
Not for the Faint of Heart
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Roxanne Gay’s novel is riveting.
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if you want to be dragged into utter dispare
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If you could sum up An Untamed State in three words, what would they be?
Powerful. Heartwrenching. Funny (some needed laugh-out-loud moments).Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
This novel will break your heart. It will make you want to stop reading it because you hurt, deep in your heart, for Mirielle and all that she goes through. Thankfully, it was interspersed with just enough flashbacks to good and funny memories to sustain you. All you want to know is if and how she survives it all and so you keep going, even when it hurts.Which scene was your favorite?
There were two really memorable moments between Mirielle and Michael that are laugh out loud funny. There are so many books about serious topics that never give you a moment to laugh and the laughter here was needed and unexpected and you feel weird laughing during this book, but you also feel like you deserve to laugh.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
It was a book I couldn't stop listening to, but my instincts kept telling me to turn it off, to run away. It was too emotional, too painful, too realistic. But the story is worth the agony.Not for the Faint of Heat - TRIGGER WARNINGS
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The way Alexa talked to her husband so rudely but when her mother in law offered the same thing, she met her MIL with kindness.
Storyline overall was good but I don’t think this would be on the list to re-read in the future.
Story line kept me intrigued
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Roxane does such a great job of jumping back into time. It's a smooth transition.
I love how descriptive her writing is. She makes me feel like I'm the character. Loved the book.
I would say this book could trigger certain people, so please be aware
Passion, sex, fear, courage, strength, REAL, RAW
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Great!
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