5/24/2023 0 Comments Want book lynn steger strongfor houses for the rich, so their financial stability hovers near zero. The narrator, Elizabeth, lives in a cramped apartment in New York with her husband and their two young daughters both decided to choose and/or leave corporate (or similar) work in the eighties to pursue their own dreams, which the narrator points out early in the novel was their first big mistake: Elizabeth has longed to teach at the college level, while her husband makes furniture, bookcases etc. Lynn Steger Strong’s new novel “Want” joins this exclusive club of excellent novels of this ilk. As I’ve mentioned before in reviewing novels this year, the newly independent woman finding herself in New York has become a genre unto itself the best example this year is “The Exhibition of Persephone Q” the two women writers who’ve helped to establish this genre are the superbly gifted Mary Gaitskill and the always fascinating Ottessa Moshfegh.
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