The Women
by Hilton Als
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Pub Date 3 Jul 2025 | Archive Date 30 Dec 2025
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Description
What are the forces that shape us? In The Women, Hilton Als explores—with breath taking originality—the role of sexual and racial identity in marginalized lives. With a blend of fact and fiction, Als brings to vivid life a number of extraordinary characters, including: his mother, a singular woman whose West Indian heritage and determination inspired her son to write; Malcolm X's mother, whose mixed-race background and eventual descent into madness contributed to her son's burgeoning misogyny and fear; brilliant, Harvard-educated Dorothy Dean, who deeply empathized with white gay men; and Owen Dodson, teacher and poet, who played an important role in the author's development as a gay man, and thinker.
Combining memoir, cultural history, social theory and storytelling, The Women is a profoundly innovative work which has inspired a generation of writers. Here, Als submits both racial and sexual stereotypes to scrutiny, showing ‘no mercy but every tenderness’. The results are exhilarating. The Women is that rarest of books: a memorable work of self-investigation that creates a form of all its own.
Advance Praise
'Inventive and daring'
The New York Times
'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin' Observer
'At once eclectic and focused, dense and loose, intimate and sharp, Als’s writing is absorbing and ingeniously provoking'
Windham Campbell Prizes
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9780141999746 |
PRICE | £10.99 (GBP) |
PAGES | 160 |