I covered his smooth brown arms and his beaming face with sunscreen.
I dressed my son, Christophe, in a pair of miniature red board shorts and a light blue T-shirt with a sailboat across the front. It was hot, nearly a hundred degrees, the air so thick it felt like warm rain. Once upon a time, in a far-off land, I was kidnapped by a gang of fearless yet terrified young men with so much impossible hope beating inside their bodies it burned their very skin and strengthened their will right through their bones. Our thanks to Gay and Grove Atlantic for sharing it here.įor more, read our Roxane Gay picks from the Longreads Archive.
Roxane Gay’s new novel, An Untamed State, is out this week, and we’re excited to present the opening chapters with the Longreads community. Roxane Gay | An Untamed State | May 2014 | 11 minutes (2,742 words)
