In Want, 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. 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. Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight.

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. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Guernica, LARB, Literary Hub.

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. Lynn Steger Strongs first novel, Hold Still, was published in 2016. 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. Lynn Steger Strong's Want reads like a highly personal confession of various wants: the want of money and stability in one’s life and career the want of providing more stability for one’s children, as well as supportemotional, financial, and otherwisefor one’s spouse and also the want of creating lasting ties and friendships amid a world where technology has made us feel that. Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight, and love.Įlizabeth is tired. by Lynn Steger Strong Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage and the limits of language, WANT is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight and love.

Want by Lynn Steger Strong