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Want Not
A Literary Fiction Novel by Jonathan Miles
Subgenres:
- Contemporary Fiction,
- Multiple Perspectives,
- Darkly Comic
This book is for you if you're into...
- Off-the-grid freegan living in gritty New York City
- Stories where desire and waste shape messy, intersecting lives
- Corrosive humor mixed with sharp social commentary
A shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating novel about the things we desire and the things we throw away. A New York Times Notable Book.
A highly inventive, corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair—a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marriage and his father's losing battle with Alzheimer's; and a self-made debt-collecting magnate, whose brute talent for squeezing money out of unlikely places has yielded him a royal existence, trophy wife included.
Want and desire propel these characters forward toward something, anything, more, until their worlds collide, briefly, randomly, yet irrevocably, in a shattering ending that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned.
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