Episode 6: An Untamed State by Roxane Gay, Valentine's Day and Fetishisation

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Coconut Juice Book Club

Ravi, Steven, Zainab

19 episodes

1 month ago

Welcome to Coconut Juice, the podcast you never knew you needed and the bookclub you’ve always wanted to join but never had the time to. We think that BAME authors are marginalised and very much underrepresented, so come and join us as we add some diversity to the existing literary landscape.

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Episode 6: An Untamed State by Roxane Gay, Valentine's Day and Fetishisation

Coconut Juice Book Club

40 minutes 8 seconds

6 years ago

Episode 6: An Untamed State by Roxane Gay, Valentine's Day and Fetishisation

Mireille Duval’s life reads like a fairy tale — the daughter of Haiti’s richest sons leads a very prosperous life in USA, with her all American husband and child. Upon a trip to the motherland, Mireille’s reality is transformed when she is kidnapped and held hostage by a gang of heavily armed men for 13 excruciating days.

American author Roxane Gay’s portrayal of sexual violence and mental torture is unyielding, the reader finds themselves wondering, how much can a woman’s body endure? What do the rich owe to the poor? Mireille’s story is distressing to say the least, but it also about survival and redemption.