![]() ![]() Gay’s stories often take the form of fable although, on her first visit to London, she is quick to reject that as any appeal to universality. A quirk of nature – that lightning striking sand can make glass – becomes an inspired vehicle for preoccupations that recur throughout Gay’s work: that love means not being seen through, but seen, and heard for yourself that bodies are both breakable and a possible source of redemption. ![]() When he holds her he does so gently, and not just because he must. At meals, he marvels, watching the food travel through their bodies. He falls in love, marries her, they have a glass child. T here is a story in Roxane Gay’s second collection of short fiction, Difficult Women, in which a big, strong man who works in a quarry goes for a walk on the beach and, seeing an extra glint in the sand, discovers a woman made of glass. ![]()
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