Objects of Desire

Sestanovich’s elegant prose takes seriously the quiet unrest that can ravage a life, and makes room for the pleasure and discovery that can be found in that ruinRaven Leilani, author of Luster

Sublimely polished . . . collectively probe the gap between how we’re seen and how we might long to appear.Hephzibah Anderson, Observer

Sestanovich's steady hand and bone-clean prose recall such foremothers as Joan Didion, Zadie Smith, and Jhumpa Lahiri Elinor Hitt, The Paris Review

Sestanovich is an extraordinary noticer. Carefully, sparely, she parses layers of feeling and attitude; of the tiny ways we admit or refuse love; of incremental, almost invisible, losses of selfGuardian