There were moments when I felt like I desperately needed these breaks, these brief moments of human love and joy, in order to recover from the torture sequences. The narrative of her captivity is broken up with flashbacks to her childhood as the daughter of Haitian immigrants in the US, her courtship with her husband, and her life as a wife and mother. Her father, a shrewd businessman and patriarch, takes a hard-line in the negotiations for her return, and as a result, Mirelle is held captive, tortured and raped for 13 days, while her infant son and her Nebraska-born and raised husband, largely unfamiliar with Haitian culture and the business of kidnapping, wait. Mirelle is a Haitian-American woman who, while visiting her parents in Port-Au-Prince with her husband and son, is kidnapped and held for ransom. I am an utterly amateur blogger, so I don't know much about how you transition to and from trigger warnings with grace, so I'll just say that the book features an extraordinary amount of graphic violence against its protagonist, and my review of it will naturally have to allude to this. An Untamed State by Roxane Gay is brutal, lush, and intense.
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