Difficult Women

The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail.
A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage.
A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other.
A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer.
A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind.

From a girls' fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America.

Femeile din aceste povesti traiesc vieti privilegiate si sarace, sunt in casatorii atat iubitoare, cat si bantuite de crime din trecut sau santaj emotional. O pereche de surori, crescute acum, au fost inseparabile de cand au fost rapite impreuna ca si copii si trebuie sa negocieze casatoria surorii mai mari.