num_pages: 209
description: Grappling with motherhood economic anxiety rage and the limits of language Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger insight and love.Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life she has found herself with two kids a husband two jobs a PhDand now theyre filing for bankruptcy. As she tries to balance her dream and the impossibility of striving toward it while her work and home lives feel poised to fall apart she wakes at ungodly hours to run miles by the icy river struggling to quiet her thoughts.When she reaches out to Sasha her long-lost childhood friend it feels almost harmlessone of those innocuous ruptures that exist online in texts. But her timing is uncanny. Sasha is facing a crisis too and perhaps after years apart their shared moments of crux can bring them back into each others lives.In Want Lynn Steger Strong explores the subtle violences enacted on a certain type of woman when she dares to want thingsand all the various violences in which she implicates herself as she tries to survive.
language: English
title: Want
publisher: Henry Holt & Co.