'Arresting and powerful, Flight examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our time of looming existential threats.” - Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers

Celebrated poet, memoirist, and novelist Jill Bialosky has reached new and daring heights in her boldest work yet. It is also a brilliant investigation of a life caught between the dueling magnetic poles of privacy and its appropriation in art and literature. The Deceptions is a page-turning and seductively told exploration of female sexuality and ambition as well as a human drama that dares to test the stories we tell ourselves. As secret betrayals and deceptions come to light and rage threatens to overwhelm her, the pantheon of gods assume remarkably vivid lives of their own, forcing her to choose between reality and myth in an effort to free herself from the patriarchal constraints of the past and embrace a new vision for her future. As she passes her days teaching at a boys’ prep school, spending her off-hours sequestered in the museum's austere galleries, she is haunted by memories of a yearlong friendship with a colleague, a fellow poet struggling with his craft. She seeks answers to the paradoxes of love, desire, and parenthood among the Greek and Roman gods at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Anticipation about her soon-to-be-released book of poetry looms.

Her only child has left home, and her twenty-year marriage is strained. An unnamed narrator’s life is unraveling. Something terrible has happened and I don’t know what to do. In Want, Strong explores the subtle violences enacted on a certain type of woman when she dares to want things - and all the various violences in which she implicates herself as she tries to survive.An explosive tale of art and myth, desire and betrayal, from New York Times best-selling author Jill Bialosky Sasha is facing a crisis, too, and perhaps after years apart, their shared moments of crux can bring them back into each other's lives. When she reaches out to Sasha, her long-lost childhood friend, it feels almost harmless - one of those innocuous ruptures that exist online, in texts. As she tries to balance her dream and the impossibility of striving toward it while her work and home lives feel poised to fall apart, she wakes at ungodly hours to run miles by the icy river, struggling to quiet her thoughts. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life, she has found herself with two kids, a husband, two jobs, a PhD - and now they're filing for bankruptcy. Grappling with motherhood, economic anxiety, rage, and the limits of language, Want is a fiercely personal novel that vibrates with anger, insight, and love.Įlizabeth is tired.

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