Caridad is the instructor at the fitness center in the gated community, where the clients speak to her in broken Spanish to impress her. In another unit, Jean Richard and Elsie Moreau hear about a Haitian couple moving in, and they decide to invite them for drinks. She goes to work, and he watches more t.v. After watching this, the couple has “thank God we’re not fat” sex. documentaries about fat being surgically removed. The couple in unit eleven of the gated community watches t.v. Marcy joins a fitness class and likes feeling sore. The husband joins a golf club where the men’s bodies increase in reverse to those of their wives. The third tells of a couple moving to a gated Florida community. Are the girls damaged or different as they age? In the second story, the mother of a new baby boy measures what she eats, and her husband tells her she’s perfect. The first is about two sisters who are sexually abused by Peter, who goes to jail and awards them a lot of money after the trial. “Difficult Women” by Roxane Gay is a book of short stories that will make you gasp, cry, and wonder at the imagination that wrote them.
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