![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In “Forty-Two,” a self-proclaimed “cougar” of that age (though she hates the term) gets ready to attend a wedding of a man she’s tried to steal in “Beautiful People,” a production assistant sleeps with a gorgeous movie star who cooks her osso buco and ultimately swindles her in “Maid Marian,” a woman tries to make sense of her hatred for her older lover’s wife after his death. In the story “American Girl,” three women triangulate around a mediocre politician, all of them desperate for him, none having much of a sense of themselves beyond their one pursuit. Her new story collection, “ Ghost Lover,” is populated similarly by women who want most of all to be wanted, mostly by men, though what they want even more is for the women around them to be jealous of how much they’re wanted by men. ![]() Both her bestselling nonfiction project “ Three Women” and her 2021 novel “Animal” explored the dangers and the thrills, the violence and the ache of a specific shade of sexual desire. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]()
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