Mcmasters Kelly - Wanting Women Writing About Desire - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: What is desire? And what are its rules? How do we navigate the journey from the things we were brought up thinking we should want to figuring out what we actually do? These candid and insightful essays tackle the complicated knot of women's desire. In the opening essay Larissa Pham unearths the ache beneath all her wants: time. Rena Priest's desire for a pair of five - hundred - dollar cowboy boots spurs a reckoning with her childhood on the rez and the fraught history of her hometown. Other pieces in the collection turn cultural tropes around dating sex and romance on their heads - Angela Cardinale tries dating as a divorced mother of two in California suburbs only to discover sweet solace in being alone; Keyanah B. Nurse finds power in polyamory; and when Joanna Rakoff spots a former lover at a bar the heat between them unravels her family as she is pulled into his orbit - an undoing she decides that's worth everything. Award - winning and emerging female writers from a range of experiences and backgrounds dismantle every formal notion of what desire is or can be in this fierce and daring anthology.
Title: Wanting Women Writing About Desire
Author(s): Mcmasters Kelly
Publisher: Catapult
Barcode: 9781646220113
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 2/14/2023
Category: Literary Essays