![]() ![]() 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. Lynn Steger Strong’s first novel, Hold Still, was released by Liveright/WW Norton in 2016. Moving flashbacks reveal a youth spent in Florida, where a quietly self-destructive Elizabeth received little comfort from her wealthy and success-driven parents. In Want, Lynn Steger Strong avoids those pitfalls by exploring the realities of adult life and how fissures can grow in a long-held friendship, seep into a marriage and corrupt our sense of privilege, success and economic security. Her fiction and non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times. She laments, “My body almost single-handedly bankrupted us.” Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novels Hold Still, Want, and the forthcoming Flight. 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. The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Want, told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for. 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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