![]() One of the longest and strongest stories is FLORIDA, which builds the story of life in a gated subdivision by visiting various addresses. Gay writes, "She once told a boyfriend about these considerations and he said, 'You are completely out of your mind.' She told a new friend at work and she said, 'Honey, you're not crazy. ![]() There is, for example, a section titled "What a Crazy Woman Thinks About While Walking Down the Street": how she's dressed, how to ignore catcalls, when to make or not make eye contact, whether she has her keys ready to use as a weapon. Some of the longer stories layer multiple characters and plots, like the title story, a catalog of "difficult" women and how they got that way. ![]() The stories in Difficult Women range in length from a couple of pages to 20 or more. ![]() In those works and in these stories, she writes fearlessly and with insight about love and power between men and women, about the horror of sexual violence and its inescapable aftershocks, about the fierce and flawed tenderness of mothers for their children. ![]()
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