Queer Book Club: Difficult Women
Queer Book Club is a small but enthusiastic community that has been meeting monthly to discuss queer-themed books spanning numerous genres. This month, we’ll be reading Difficult Women by Roxane Gay:
“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 marriage of one of them. 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.”
This class is presented in partnership with DC Public Library.
Location
Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library
1630 Seventh St. NW
Washington,
DC
20001
Neighborhood: Shaw
Past event