*WINNER OF THE 2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR LESBIAN FICTION* 'Wild and lyrical visionary and
touching. Read her!' Sharlene Teo Surreal and seductive Gods of Want is a startling first
collection from a rising talent - one of the '5 Under 35' National Book Award honorees and
author of Bestiary. These original stories brim with moths myths memories and mothers
nine-headed birds ghost cousins and storm-chasers - and delve into corporeality and
ghostliness queerness and the quotidian with boundless imagination. K-Ming Chang's
storytelling is fierce fabulist and feminist. In 'Auntland' a stream of aunts adjust to
American life by sneaking kisses from women at temple and buying tubs of vanilla ice cream to
prep for citizenship tests. In 'The Chorus of Dead Cousins' ghost cousins cross space seas
and skies to haunt their living cousin. In 'Xífù' a mother-in-law tortures a wife in
increasingly unsuccessful attempts to oust her. In 'Mariela' two girls explore each other's
bodies for the first time in the belly of a plastic shark. And in 'Resident Aliens' a series
of mysterious widows each harbouring a calamitous secret make their home in a former
slaughterhouse. An electrifying and singular new voice in fiction K-Ming Chang has been
heralded by writers including RAVEN LEILANI DANEZ SMITH KIRSTY LOGAN KELLY LINK JULIA
PHILIPS TASH AW ELAINE CASTELLO JENNIFER TSENG and JUSTIN TORRES.*A New York Times Notable
Book of 2022* 'Stunning and moving... One of our most brilliant authors' Bryan Washington
'These stories glitter and pulse' Dantiel W. Montiz 'A voracious probing collection proof of
how exhilarating the short story can be' New York Times
