K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the novel Bestiary, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.
“[K-Ming Chang] rewrites the world as a place of radical
transformation.’”—The New York Times Book Review
“[Her] ability, to take a common, decidedly earthbound, experience
and transform it through her lens into a fantastical, otherworldly
encounter shines. . . . Chang’s writing reflects her gift as a
lifelong listener of oral storytelling . . . and her ability to
synthesize new ideas with her own spin on language.”—San Francisco
Chronicle
“Chang has a special talent for forging history into myth and myth
into present-day fiction. . . . Gods of Want is in some ways a
fantasy of queer freedom. Its main characters, all Taiwanese or
Chinese by birth or descent, are allowed to be who they are, to
love and make love to whomever they choose.”—Los Angeles Times
“[K-Ming Chang] is back with her signature precise and enthralling
prose in this short-story collection.”—Shondaland
“K-Ming Chang’s inspired mix of magic and realism returns in full
fabulist force. . . . The stories are eclectic . . . and united by
Chang’s fascination with the queer and quotidian in her characters’
worlds. . . . Piercing.”—Esquire
“Her new short-story collection Gods of Want both widens and
calcifies the expansiveness of her range. . . . Chang is singular
amongst us all. . . . New work from Chang is a cause for
celebration—a holiday in its own right—and it’s also a reminder of
the infinite possibilities on the page. . . . Nothing short of
marvelous.”—Bryan Washington, for Electric Literature
“A whole body experience.”—THEM
“These stories glitter and pulse . . . Full of mythic desire, joy
and pain disguised as the other, and navigating the precarious
balance of how to belong to a land while still belonging to
oneself, Gods of Want is bursting with language and images so
striking, so sure of their own strength, I found myself stunned.
The worlds and characters depicted in these pages are original,
strange, sometimes-horrific, and all the more gorgeous because of
it.”—Dantiel W. Moniz, author of Milk Blood Heat
“In the genre of feminine madness, these stories are to be
worshipped. They are fearless, hysterical, violent yet full of
grace. Each sentence escalates toward devastating, poetic insight
about our bodies, about cultural demands both treasured and feared,
and about what makes being alive a terror and a joy.”—Venita
Blackburn, author of How to Wrestle a Girl
“This book traces a line from old worlds to new worlds by means of
the bloody umbilical cords that stretch between them. . . . These
stories unthread the tangled relationships between mothers and
daughter, aunts and cousins, siblings and lovers . . . a
lingering sense that language, as well as life, is infinitely
adaptable, no matter the ground on which it is given to grow.
Lurid, funny, strange, and deftly sorrowing—an important new
voice.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Dazzling . . . This stellar collection will leave readers
hungry for more.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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