2/9/2024 0 Comments An untamed state book![]() As a prolific essayist and critic, Gay (Writing/Eastern Illinois Univ.) has developed a plainspoken, almost affectless style, which serves her heroine's story well: The more bluntly Gay describes Mireille's degradations, the stronger the impact. But Gay’s dialogue complicates rather than simplifies these issues. Gay’s characters are engineered to open up conflicts over gender, class (Mireille’s family is wealthy in a poor country) and race (Mireille is black and Michael is white). ![]() She was a target because her father heads a highly profitable construction firm, and his resistance to paying ransom baffles Mireille’s U.S.-born husband, Michael meanwhile, she’s repeatedly beaten and sexually assaulted by her captors. ![]() Gay’s remarkable debut novel is mostly narrated by Mireille, who, as the story opens, is visiting her native Haiti from Miami with her husband and infant son when she’s forcibly abducted by a gang and held for 13 days. A harrowing and emotionally cleareyed vision of one woman’s ordeal during and after her kidnapping in Haiti.
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