![]() Married, with two little girls, and living with her family in a cramped seventh-floor walk-up apartment in Brooklyn, she teaches at a charter high school in Manhattan where she's one of the few white teachers. The unnamed narrator and main character of Lynn Steger Strong's immersive new novel, bluntly titled Want, is only in her early 30s, but she already knows what it took me a while to learn: that without bread, you can't appreciate roses. The passing years and the present economic crisis make Finnegans Wake seem like cold comfort. I, too, believed literature would be enough of a consolation were I ever to find myself jobless and broke. "Well," he said, "at least you'll be able to read Finnegans Wake in the unemployment line."Īt the time, I laughed along. I always remember how a beloved college professor of mine responded when I told him the news that I'd gotten a fellowship to a Ph.D. ![]()
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