A few weeks after the collection’s release, K-Ming Chang spoke with me on her writing process, the storytelling modes she emulates, and the elusive transcendence of language. Every story reels with liveliness, contradiction, and desire, as howled from the mouth of a ghost or found in the arms of a lover, all humming with surreptitious and irreconcilable wants. In each one, Chang seamlessly weaves prose and poetry, combining the expository potential of the former with the haunting abstraction of the latter. All are bound by a collective hunger, a want that drives these stories to fantastically wild heights. They fend off the mischievous ghosts of cousins, recount memories of classmates, grapple with impulses of desire or disgust. Released last month, K-Ming Chang’s Gods of Want is more than the sum of its parts–in a collection of short stories narrated by what Chang calls the pluralistic “I”, a host of women from various walks of life seek answers from their environments.
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