![]() ![]() In the first portion of the book, called "Happily Ever After," the novel moves back and forth in time between Mireille's captivity and her earlier life, meeting and falling in love with husband Michael during graduate school in the Midwest of the United States. When her father, who by now has become a wealthy Haitian developer, refuses to pay her ransom, she is gang-raped and tortured by her captors, who keep her imprisoned for 13 days before finally releasing her. ![]() While vacationing at her parents' house with her husband and child in Haiti, she is kidnapped. Mireille Duval Jameson is born and raised in the United States, her parents are from Haitian descent. An Untamed State is the debut novel of writer Roxane Gay, first published in 2014 by Grove Atlantic. ![]()
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