![]() ![]() People stood around watching the kidnapping, but no one stepped forward to help. Their infant son, Christophe, was in the backseat. Mireille and her husband, Michael, were leaving her parents’ gated estate when Mireille was taken at gunpoint. ![]() ![]() The novel details Mireille’s struggle to stay in charge of herself while in captivity and her fight to get back to herself and her family after she was released. During that time, she was starved, raped, and beaten. Because her father, Sebastian Duval, refused to pay the ransom, Mireille was held captive for 13 days. In the historical fiction novel An Untamed State by Roxane Gay, Mireille Duval Jameson, a Haitian native and American citizen, was kidnapped when she visited her wealthy parents in Haiti. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Gay, Roxane. ![]()
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