{"product_id":"all-this-want-and-i-cant-get-none-stories","title":"All This Want (and I Can't Get None): Stories","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A sharp, wily, finely etched debut so bittersweet you can taste it.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Jami Attenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eA Reason to See You Again\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Young Black girls, women, and nonbinary people make up the cast of characters in this short fiction collection spanning stories in and around a small working-class neighborhood outside of NYC . . . T. Clark is a wonderful writer, and I think we can expect a lot of humor and heart here.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"I may not look like the girls in this collection, but I needed this. The world needs T Clark's writing. Clark peels back the layers of their characters, making them dazzle. Each story is as riotous as it is endearing.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The collection I've been praying for. One that keeps it real, lets people be hot, bothered, messy, unrelieved, funny, and profound. In \n\u003ci\u003eAll This Want (and I Can't Get None)\u003c\/i\u003e, Clark trades in the rose-colored glasses for something more authentic: first rate stories of young men and women coming to epiphanies in their pursuit of a warm body to kiss.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Sidik Fofana, \u003ci\u003eStories From the Tenants Downstairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Clark's work is lush, complex, a little bit sexy . . . Everything you'd want from fiction concerned with the humanness and paradox of being alive.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Dantiel W. Moniz, author of \u003ci\u003eMilk Blood Heat\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"All This Want (and I Can't Get None) \u003c\/i\u003eis an ode to Black girlhood in all its forms, each story its own messy, hilarious, profound illustration of desire, friendship, the masks we put on, and the ways we learn to love. T Clark has written a short story collection for the ages: sharp, layered, and abundant with characters so easy to know and love it feels impossible that the next narrator can be equally charming, complex, and inspired; and yet, Clark delivers story after story of yearning girls and women and their relentlessly relatable worlds, expertly ushering us into each story only to long for them as soon as they're over.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Leila Mottley, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girls Who Grew Big\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Smart, thoughtful, and so goddamn funny, T Clark's \n\u003ci\u003eAll This Want (and I Can't Get None)\u003c\/i\u003e is a treasure trove of a collection. Looking into these stories felt akin to pressing your eye against the viewsight of a kaleidoscope: every turn of the page brought some fresh new delight. What a stunner.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Kristen N. Arnett, author of \u003ci\u003eMostly Dead Things\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"In \n\u003ci\u003eAll This Want (and I Can't Get None)\u003c\/i\u003e, Clark's prose is unflinching, raw, and haunting. These stories center characters too often sidelined, exposing the fragile, combustible space between who they are and who they might become.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--LaToya Watkins, author of \u003ci\u003eHoller, Child\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eT Clark\u003c\/b\u003e is from Westchester County, New York. They received BAs in sociology and English from Rutgers University in New Brunswick and an MFA in fiction from Indiana University in Bloomington. They were the recipient of a Writer in the World fellowship in Nepal, a Ross Lockridge Jr. Award in Fiction, a Newport News Public Library short story award, and a Mitchell Adelman Memorial Scholarship for Creative Writing. They have received support and fellowships from the Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, New York; the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; the Lambda Literary Foundation; the Elizabeth George Foundation; the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing; and the Vermont Studio Center. Their fiction has appeared in \n\u003ci\u003eJoyland, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, The Offing\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003e Fourteen Hills, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. They teach and write in New Orleans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA piercing short story collection that explores the feverish hunger and dizzying pleasure of girlhood and queer coming-of-age in a small town, from an acclaimed emerging writer\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"An ode to Black girlhood in all its forms, each story its own messy, hilarious, profound illustration of desire, friendship, the masks we put on, and the ways we learn to love. T Clark has written a short story collection for the ages.\"--Leila Mottley, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Girls Who Grew Big\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet mostly in and around a small working-class neighborhood just outside of New York City, Clark's stories explore the lives of young Black girls, women, and nonbinary characters, slicing through the filmy veil between adolescence and adulthood, between who they've been and who they might become. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eD'asia's friendship with a school security guard is teetering close to inappropriate. Chrissy is looking to play roulette on a trip with her boyfriend but ends up in a hotel room with two strangers. Juju's mother dresses her up for a meeting with a local music producer. A little sister cringes as her friend tries to hook up with her older brother. A fight breaks out at a party and the video goes viral. A woman can't stop walking by her ex's window, hoping to catch a glimpse of all she lost. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith sharp sentences and great affection, Clark excavates the push and pull of desire and power running beneath tender and bare moments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496024572182,"sku":"9798217154074","price":33.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9798217154074.jpg?v=1783050887","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/all-this-want-and-i-cant-get-none-stories","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}