Objects ‘Objects of Desire’ by Clare Sestanovich

Author, Clare Sestanovich is being heralded as a brilliant new writer and compared to Joan Didion, Zadie Smith for her sparse, nuanced, and sensorial prose. Her first collection of eleven short stories entitled Objects of Desire (Pan MacMillan) unveils themes of womanhood, self-identity and lust in meticulously crafted narratives that are rich with mesmerising detail that highlights the chasm between who we really are and how we might want to appear. Brooklyn based Sestanovich, who works as an editor at The New Yorker is immersed in wordsmithing. “When I write about sex, I think what I’m trying hardest to capture is that murkiness. What keeps us from getting what we want? What keeps us from knowing what we want?” she told the Paris Review. Her depiction of social encounters and description of the invisible fabric of our lives, is resonant as we all tackle the re-entry into post pandemic reality.