The betrayal of desire
Young women are interrogating what they want.
I’m on vacation this week and, as you’re reading this, probably on a plane finishing Sarah Manguso’s Liars. It’s “a crime novel, except the crime is heterosexual marriage,” as says.
In the wake of Liars and so many other buzzy releases, as well as the growing noise around women swearing off heteronormative love and sex, it feels pre…