And both of whom, I think, almost use one another as receptacles or kind of empty spaces to fill in with all the things that they maybe aren’t getting or wish that they got somewhere else.Īnd I think Elizabeth, for instance, she needs more. So I think in a lot of ways, this Sasha, Elizabeth friendship is a friendship we see a lot of in fiction, not least, because you see a lot of it in life, which is to say that you have two girls, both of whom want love and need love in different ways. To me, a lot of the project of the book was to sort of take tropes that I love and I’m really interested and kind of upend them or reconsider them in different ways.
It’s a book about a woman who declares bankruptcy and gets in touch with an old friend, which I guess are the two sort of, to me, kind of inciting incidents of the book.īut more importantly it’s a book about trying to be a successful woman, and how that affects privilege, friendship, motherhood, class, money, and shame.Īt the heart of the novel is the friendship of Elizabeth and Sasha, although small spoiler alert, Elizabeth isn’t named until the end of the book. In Want, Lynn depicts the realistic fissures that can grow in a long-held friendship, seep into a marriage and corrupt our sense of privilege, success and money. I’m Lynn Steger Strong author of the novel Want.
… her latest book avoids those pitfalls by exploring, with depth, the realities of adult life. In a lot of media, depictions of women in female friendships fall back on staid stereotypes: the back-stabbing competitor… the gossip… the manipulator and the superficial princess.
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