Gods of Want: Stories

Gods of Want: StoriesStartling stories center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American women in a voracious, probing collection, proof of how exhilarating the short story can be (The New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice)from the National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree and author of Bestiary Wise, energetic, funny, and wild, Gods of Want displays a boundless imagination anchored by the weight of ancestors and history.Kali Fajardo Anstine,

ending his note

all those executioners

Little Mae’s curiosity

The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature's most important writers

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Toya wound up in the French colony of Saint Domingue

as haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road

of living in America as a black man or the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture or the loss of those he loves

A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity

a mother receives a divination that foretells danger for her daughter in America

which puts us in shackles even as it makes our lives easier

At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia--the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion