A review by texreader
Ayiti by Roxane Gay

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5.0

These short stories about women in Haiti or its diaspora are painful and poignant, sometimes hopeful and sometimes despairingly sad. Some feel so real I thought they were autobiographical. They are not but I felt I learned so much about the author from reading them. This is the first I’ve read by Gay and it was so good. I look forward to reading another one by her. Having just finished a book of short stories about Nepal, with what I felt were incomplete and contained gratuitous scenes of se*, Gay has some stories without endings and certainly contain very intimate scenes. But it feels like her stories have real purpose and so does the intimacy—they are important parts of the stories. This is a short read, and worth anyone’s time to read. 
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