We Want What We Want

Alix Ohlin delivers a masterclass in the short story with We Want What We Want, populated by bad parents, burned potential, and inescapable old flames. In the mordantly funny "Money, Geography, Youth," Vanessa arrives home after volunteering in Ghana, only to discover that her father is engaged to her childhood best friend. In the subversive "The Brooks Brothers Guru," Amanda drives to Upstate New York to rescue her cousin from a cult, only to discover well-dressed men living together in a beautiful abode, drinking cocktails, and exchanging Classical knowledge. In "The Universal Particular," Tamar welcomes her husband's young relative from Somalia into her Stockholm home, only to find her life knocked askew in ways she doesn't quite understand.

Each story inWe Want What We Wantis diamond-sharp sparkling with humour, pain, and beauty. (From House of Anansi Press)

We Want What We Want is available in July 2021.

AlixOhlin is a writer from Vancouver and the current chair of the creative writing program at the University of British Columbia. Her books include the novelsInside,Dual Citizensand the short story collectionSigns and Wonders. BothInsideandDual Citizenswere finalists for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, in 2012 and 2019.

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