Finally, An Untamed State found its way into my car on a camping trip, and I was compelled, if I wanted to read at all, to read the only book I had brought with me. There are too many books that take me too long to read because they’re just too hard to get through. There are so many books about rape, about broken bodies and broken women and the terror of a person’s dignity being ripped from her body and soul.
So, I bought the book, and I procrastinated.
But I had read Bad Feminist and loved it, and I was dying to see what Gay could do with fiction. That’s what I thought when I first picked up An Untamed State by Roxane Gay.
