She and her husband are attempting to eke out a living for themselves in fields with no clear career paths-in academia and custom carpentry, respectively-while raising two young children. So, it’s no surprise that her new novel, Want (Holt), centers on Elizabeth, an overwhelmed and overeducated young mother, as she navigates the brutal economics, both literal and spiritual, of life in New York City. Lynn Steger Strong’s writing is, at times, perilously honest: in her novels and essays, she details the structures and frictions created by money and class, gender and race, speaking clearly and forthrightly about things that many of us spend our lives attempting to politely elide.
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