The latter section of the novel, "Once Upon a Time," follows Mireille in the aftermath of her trauma, including her time living with Michael's mother, Lorraine, on the family farm in Nebraska.Ĭommentary on An Untamed State frequently cites the novel's emphasis on fairy tale. In the first portion of the book, called "Happily Ever After," the novel moves back and forth in time between Mireille's captivity and her earlier life, meeting and falling in love with husband Michael during graduate school in the Midwest of the United States. When her father, who by now has become a wealthy Haitian developer, refuses to pay her ransom, she is gang-raped and tortured by her captors, who keep her imprisoned for 13 days before finally releasing her. While vacationing at her parents' house with her husband and child in Haiti, she is kidnapped. Mireille Duval Jameson is born and raised in the United States, her parents are from Haitian descent. Urn:lcp:untamedstate0000gayr_k6s3:epub:352d407c-f912-4b03-b19d-cbecc03f6729 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier untamedstate0000gayr_k6s3 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0wq9081k Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780802122513ġ472120159 Lccn 2015410894 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Old_pallet IA18214 Page_number_confidence 91.33 Pages 394 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200801074213 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 557 Scandate 20200716163010 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781472119810 Tts_version 4.An Untamed State is the debut novel of writer Roxane Gay, first published in 2014 by Grove Atlantic. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:46:21 Boxid IA1888110 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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