Author: lynnstegerstrong

Named a Best Book of 2020 by Time Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, NPR, Vulture, The New Yorker, and Kirkus Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight, and love. Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life, she has found herself with two kids, a husband, two … found herself with two kids, a husband, two jobs, a PhD–and now they’re filing for bankruptcy. As she tries to balance her dream and the impossibility of striving toward it…