Set in modern-day Haiti, “An Untamed State” is the story of an American lawyer who’s kidnapped while visiting her rich parents in Port-au-Prince. It is an intimate portrayal of trauma with a unique voice, both blunt and poetic, and the book manages to be both devastating and hopeful. It is the story of a willful woman attempting to find her way back to the person she once was, and of how redemption is found in the most unexpected of places. Untamed definition, changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear. See more.

An Untamed State is a novel of privilege in the face of crushing poverty, and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce. An Untamed State is a harrowing story of a violent kidnapping and the aftermath for the victim and the family. -- Edwidge Danticat Finished @rgay's gripping and brilliant novel An Untamed State last night. An Untamed State is a novel of hope intermingled with fear, a book about possibilities mixed with horror and despair. An Untamed State is an uncompromising study of a proud, hot-tempered woman, fragile in her humanity, yet resilient, and the impact her kidnapping has on her relationship with her husband, family, and the country she never understood, but once loved. An Untamed State is a novel of privilege in the face of crushing poverty, and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce. It resists 140-character analysis, but wow. It is the story of a willful woman attempting to find her way back to the person she once was, and of how redemption is found in the most unexpected of places. An Untamed State is a novel of privilege in the face of crushing poverty, and of the lawless anger that corrupt governments produce. It is the story of a wilful woman attempting to find her way back to the person she once was, and of how redemption is found in the most unexpected of places. An Untamed State is told mostly from the perspective of Mireille Duval Jameson, a stubborn, quick-tempered daughter of Haitian immigrants who’s a … It is written at a pace that will match your racing.