Gods of Want: Stories

Gods of Want: Stories
Gods of Want: Stories
Gods of Want: Stories

This title has a release date of July 12, 2022. See below for more information.

Written by: K-Ming Chang

Publisher: One World

Gods of Want: Stories Release Date

Gods of Want: Stories releases July 12, 2022

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July 12, 2022

Gods of Want: Stories Release Date

Gods of Want: Stories released on July 12, 2022.

Gods of Want: Stories Synopsis

Startling stories that center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American women, from the National Book Award “5 Under 35” honoree and author of Bestiary

In “Auntland,” a steady stream of aunts adjust to American life by sneaking surreptitious kisses from women at temple, buying tubs of vanilla ice cream to prepare for citizenship tests, and hatching plans to name their daughters “Dog.” In “The Chorus of Dead Cousins,” ghost-cousins cross space, seas, and skies to haunt their live-cousin, wife to a storm chaser. In “Xífù,” a mother-in-law tortures a wife in increasingly unsuccessful attempts to rid the house of her. In “Mariela,” two girls explore one another’s bodies for the first time in the belly of a plastic shark, while in “Virginia Slims,” a woman from a cigarette ad comes to life. And in “Resident Aliens,” a former slaughterhouse serves as a residence to a series of widows, each harboring her own calamitous secrets.

With each tale, K-Ming Chang gives us her own take on a surrealism that mixes myth and migration, corporeality and ghostliness, queerness and the quotidian. Stunningly told in her feminist fabulist style, these are uncanny stories peeling back greater questions of power and memory.

Genre: LGBTQ+, Literary Fiction, Short Stories

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