A review by fiendfull
Gods of Want: Stories by K-Ming Chang

3.75

 Gods of Want is a collection of short stories from the author of Bestiary, exploring Taiwanese American life, magical realism, family, and queer sexuality. There's lots of hauntings of family and the past, strange characters coming and going, and narrators who don't quite feel like they fit in these stories, which are often poetic with a hypnotic sense of language and storytelling. In particular, there's a lot of mothers, aunts, and other women having an influence on younger female narrators, and reading the collection as a whole, there's a lot of interesting things to think about in terms of women and families, as well as ways in which stories are real and unreal. Some of the stories gripped me less than others, as with many collections, but there's plenty to experience in God of Want.