![]() ![]() In Want, Lynn Steger Strong explores the subtle violences enacted on a certain type of woman when she dares to want things-and all the various violences in which she implicates herself as she tries to survive. Want by Lynn Steger Strong 7,687 ratings, 3.37 average rating, 1,016 reviews Open Preview Want Quotes Showing 1-30 of 32 We were just privileged enough to think that we could live outside the systems and the structures and survive it, but we failed. Sasha is facing a crisis, too, and perhaps after years apart, their shared moments of crux can bring them back into each other's lives. When she reaches out to Sasha, her long-lost childhood friend, it feels almost harmless-one of those innocuous ruptures that exist online, in texts. 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. 6, 2022 6 AM PT On the Shelf To Paradise By Hanya Yanagihara Doubleday: 720 pages, 33 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life, she has found herself with two kids, a husband, two jobs, a PhD-and now they're filing for bankruptcy. ![]() ![]() Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight, and love. ![]()
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