![]() ![]() Our words and wants and limbs would overlap.” Strong writes womanhood with brutal honesty exhaustion, love, desire, anxiety, and the devastation of unfulfilled expectations permeate every page. ![]() Strong taps into the intensity of female friendships and how overwhelming, all-consuming, and painful they can be: “I’d forget then, on the best days, that we were separate. As they start to communicate again, Elizabeth thinks back on their decades-old relationship and where it went wrong. On top of declaring bankruptcy with her husband, Elizabeth finds her day filled to the brim: She runs miles at dawn, raises her children, works multiple jobs, tends to her marriage, placates her cruel parents, tries to make rent, navigates her privilege, and rekindles a friendship with Sasha, her ex–best friend and the most formative relationship of her life. ![]() Elizabeth, who grew up in a well-off family, now teaches low-income students at a New York City charter school (a job she needs and likes but cannot seem to love) because she cannot find a full-time job in academia. Strong’s second novel follows Elizabeth, a 34-year-old academic and mother of two, who finds herself living a life she never imagined. A deeply overwhelmed mother navigates the banality, joy, and turmoil of her life. ![]()
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