{"product_id":"objects-of-desire-stories-paperback","title":"Objects of Desire: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClare Sestanovich\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A debut story collection of the rarest kind ... you wish that every single entry could be an entire novel.\" --\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFresh, intimate stories of women's lives from an extraordinary new literary voice, laying bare the unexpected beauty and irony in contemporary life \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA college freshman, traveling home, strikesup an odd, ephemeral friendship with the couple next to her on the plane. A mother prepares for her son's wedding, her own life unraveling as his comes together. A long-lost stepbrother's visit to New York prompts a family's reckoning with its old taboos. A wife considers the secrets her marriage once contained. An office worker, exhausted by the ambitions of the men around her, emerges into a gridlocked city one afternoon to make a decision. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these eleven powerful stories, thrilling desire and melancholic yearning animate women's lives, from the brink of adulthood to the labyrinthine path between twenty and thirty, to middle age, when certain possibilities quietly elapse. Tender, lucid, and piercingly funny, \u003ci\u003eObjects of Desire \u003c\/i\u003eis a collection pulsing with subtle drama, rich with unforgettable scenes, and alive with moments of recognition each more startling than the last--a spellbinding debut that announces a major talent.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCLARE SESTANOVICH, named a \"5 Under 35\" honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2022, is a fiction writer whose work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's, The Drift, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature. Objects of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize, is her first collection. She lives in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 7.87 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44323773481062,"sku":"9780593311196","price":23.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/SnlESXo1NVdGdi9YQUFybHJmc0JQQT09.webp?v=1768153913","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/objects-of-desire-stories-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}