Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new novelist to watch. A very strong, original debut. — Zoe Whittall Copy Share Image
That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway. — Zoe Whittall Copy Share Image
“Della & I are drunk at the top of Mont-Royal. We have an open blue plastic thermos of red wine at our feet. It's the first day of spring & it's midnight & we've been peeling off layers of winter all day. We stand facing each other, as if to exchange vows, chests heaving from racing up & down the… — Zoe Whittall Copy Share
“When I tell her I feel like the other woman, she laughs, that's just learned sexist bullshit. We are all in charge of our own bodies and what we decide to do with them. We are all our own. I believed it when she said it, like she'd opened up a new valve that had been stuck. I felt unconfined… — Zoe Whittall Copy Share
Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new… — Zoe Whittall Copy Share Image
“I was attracted to girly boys and boyish girls, or girls who later became boys. Boy were always going to be part of the… — Zoe Whittall Copy Share Image
“I am having a quarter-life crisis," I announced to my mother. "My generation never had those, we just had babies and thought about killing… — Zoe Whittall Copy Share Image
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