![]() ![]() Their paths split in their 20s following a fissure that proved too painful to overcome, until a crisis sends Sasha catapulting back into Elizabeth’s orbit. Strong writes of their friendship in exacting detail, illustrating the ferocity with which women can care for one another. ![]() She found solace in Sasha, her childhood best friend, who offered the support she so clearly needed. Moving flashbacks reveal a youth spent in Florida, where a quietly self-destructive Elizabeth received little comfort from her wealthy and success-driven parents. Her incredibly smart column for the Guardian lays bare, through her own experience, how precarious life can be even for people. She laments, “My body almost single-handedly bankrupted us.” Lynn Steger Strong is a writer and a teacher who lives in New York. ![]() For Elizabeth, desperate to lead a life different from her upbringing, devotion to her academic ambitions and motherhood leave her emotionally, physically and financially drained. In Want, the author interrogates that intensity again through Elizabeth, who is feeling increasingly trapped by her desires. In her debut novel, Hold Still, Strong examined the intensity of love that exists within a familial unit. ![]()
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