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 exp
Turnaround is a trade distributor and all our titles are available from our many bookshop customers. We supply shops throughout the UK, Europe and anywhere in the world!
If you are not yet a Turnaround customer, and would like to sell our books, please do contact [email protected] or call 020 8829 3000 and we will be delighted to help you.
If you are not yet a Turnaround customer, and would like to sell our books, please do contact [email protected] or call 020 8829 3000 and we will be delighted to help you.
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 exp
About the book