An Untamed State
- ISBN-10
- 0802122515
- ISBN-13
- 9780802122513
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 370
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Author
- Roxane Gay
Description
Her perfect life is shattered when Mireille is kidnapped by armed men in front of her father's estate in Haiti and she must endure the horrors and torments of her captors while her father inexplicably resists paying for her ransom.
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