by Roxane Gay
First published 2018
Amara feels stuck. Her job leads nowhere and her marriage has turned cold and empty. She moves through each day surrounded by other people's demands and assumptions about who she should be. Something has to change. Amara begins to question everything she accepted about her life. She examines the relationships that drain her energy and the social expectations that keep her trapped. Each choice she makes brings her closer to understanding what she actually wants. The people around her resist her transformation. Her journey toward independence means confronting uncomfortable truths about herself and the world she lives in. Gay writes with unflinching clarity about the difficulty of claiming your own life when everyone else has different plans for you.
Genres: fiction, literary-fiction, contemporary
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, self-discovery
320 pages · ebook · Balzer + Bray