Objects of Desire
Objects of Desire Eleven stories that lay bare the beauties and ironies of contemporary life--a debut of sly and disarming power that announces an extraordinary new literary voice. A long-lost…
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Objects of Desire
Eleven stories that lay bare the beauties and ironies of contemporary life--a debut of sly and disarming power that announces an extraordinary new literary voice. A long-lost stepbrother's visit to New York prompts a reckoning with a family's old taboos. *Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Lit Hub and The Millions*A college freshman, flying home, strikes up an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the airplane.
A wife, looking at her husband's passwords neatly posted on the wall, realizes there are no secrets left in their marriage.In these stories, thrilling desire and melancholic yearning animate women's lives--from the brink of adulthood, to the labyrinthine path between twenty and thirty, to An office worker, exhausted by the ambitions of the men around her, emerges into the gridlocked city one afternoon to make a decision.