Gods of Want: Stories

"K-Ming Chang, author of Bestiary, brings her distinctive style and imagery to her first collection of stories. The 16 stories in the collection explore themes of family, inherited truths and myths, queer desire and the stark and sometimes violent beauty of the natural world. In one story, a woman accompanies her wife to photograph a hurricane, her many dead cousins in tow. In another, the narrator’s endless aunts are listed one after another in a poetic kind of litany. A lifeblood of desire courses through the bodies of the girls and women peopling the stories – a desire to love, lust, live and thrive."