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Praise for Every Kind of Wanting
"Gina Frangello is an author who pushes boundaries. This novel is no exception. Every Kind of Wanting is a book about the family we choose versus the family we wish we could have, but it's also about desire and love and our basest needs.... [T]he story fascinates and never falters. Frangello takes on an enthralling range of issues, from sexuality to assimilation, and keeping secrets is her greatest talent. Every page brings a new revelation, making the bitter end even sweeter."--The Globe and Mail
"[A] charming novel... She has subverted the old-fashioned suburban narrative, and filled it with a constellation of quirky characters... Frangello threads conflicts over ethnicity, class, and sexuality into the novel, and injects a smart topicality that gives it special resonance."--National Book Review
"Do you watch Love Actually every Christmas for the intertwining storylines, tragicomic characters, and themes of love and family? Frangello's new novel has all of that, minus the Hollywood sentimentality... Every Kind of Wanting is grand in scope but intimate in detail."--Chicago Magazine, One of the Best Books of the Year by Chicagoans
"Frangello's story is also an act of weaving, the warp and weft of lives turned toward the arrival of an infant... It's the balance between interior and exterior, tidiness and chaos, that makes Every Kind of Wanting so winsome. The reader sees the imperfections of these collective lives like a great tableau, as rich and human as a hand-hewn tapestry."--Shelf Awareness
"Though the plot is twisted, the characters are the heart of the story. Each chapter moves the story along through a different character's point of view. Lina's chapters are a suspenseful mixture of second- and first-person, always hinting at knowing more than she's letting on. Every Kind of Wanting deals with the kind of trauma that cracks you open over time. At the heart of such memories are where identities are found and bonds are formed. And with Chicago as the setting, a cultural landscape takes shape, bringing up even more issues of assimilation and wealth and sexuality and religion. All the details culminate into a climax that is simultaneously heartbreaking and inevitable. Frangello, who lives in Chicago herself, is a sculptor who has carved out the truest and most intimate parts of a human life. " --Chicago Review of Books
"Frangello's characters are flawed but sympathetic, and she brings up important points about race, class and sexuality. Read this if you've ever wondered how you'd fare in such a situation--or if you're just deeply curious about how such nontraditional pregnancies might play out in the real world."--PureWow
"While all families are strange, I guarantee you haven't met one like this...Every Kind of Wanting is a powderkeg disguised as a domestic drama that detonates every one of out expectations of what it means to be a family." --San Diego CityBeat
"Gina Frangello is a miracle worker. She keeps introducing me to characters who I initially have every intention of hating, but then, miraculously, come to love. In this gorgeous, complex, funny, sexy, and thoroughly modern story, she unpacks the origins of selfishness with unparalleled honesty and compassion. I couldn't put this down."--Sarah Hollenback, Women & Children First
"Each unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way, but the families in Frangello's latest novel are truly in a category all their own. Every Kind of Wanting maps the intersection of four Chicago couples as they fall into an impressively ambitious fertility scheme in the hopes of raising a "community baby." But first there are family secrets to reveal, abusive pasts to decipher, and dangerous decisions to make. If it sounds complicated, well, it is, but behind all the potential melodrama is a story that takes a serious look at race, class, sexuality, and loyalty -- in short, at the new American family."--The Millions' Great Anticipated Book List of 2016
"Urgent and stirring." --Laila Lalami, Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
"Who really owns a baby--or another person's heart? Is it the community of people who love and want a child? The woman whose eggs are responsible? Or the surrogate who carries the fetus? Frangello's funny and deeply moving novel is a brilliant fusion of deep secrets, stunning lies, the murky past and the uncertain future, all couched around the very human cost of desire. So fearless and ambitious, the pages practically ignite." --Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You
"Desire is at the heart of Frangello's work, and whether we can survive it is central to this raw, wonderful, and unmistakably contemporary novel. This is the future that our conservative forebears were scared of, in all its messy, hopeful glory." --J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen of the Great Midwest
"This is a novel about how we matter to each other, and why, and to what end. It is a labyrinthine story, complex, recursive, and crafted around the unflinchingly intimate honestly that marks everything Gina Frangello writes. What a brutal book. What a beautiful book." --Jill Alexander Essbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Hausfrau
"Gina Frangello's gifts are countless, but chief among them might be her mining of our deepest needs, our greatest desires and fears. Every Kind of Wanting is a tour de force, and Gina Frangello is a genius. Read this to discover her, but better yet: read it to discover your own heart." --Rebecca Makkai, author of The Hundred Year House
"Gina Frangello's Every Kind of Wanting left me breathless in the best way...like bodies love-wrestling, like language's sweet sweat and suction. I'd follow her words anywhere." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Small Backs of Children
"In Every Kind of Wanting, Gina Frangello unspools an exquisitely layered story about desire that takes us to astonishing heights and necessary depths. In a novel that is sensual, shocking, and wise, she delivers truth after truth about lust --whether for a lover, for a baby, for (in)fidelity, for hidden meaning, or, as she so powerfully redefines it, for love." --Dylan Landis, author of Rainey Royal
"No one, NO ONE, captures the urgency and heartbreak of the contemporary family, in all its complexity, better than Gina Frangello. Gorgeously written, sharply observed, Every Kind of Wanting is the literary equivalent of a hand grenade. I loved it." --Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
"Every Kind of Wanting is not only a study in great character development, it is a consummate, emotionally sophisticated, and fiercely readable survey of the yearnings that shape our lives. Frangello is a writer's writer, and Every Kind of Wanting finds her at the top of her game." --Jonathan Evison, author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving
"Gina Frangello masterfully captures the craziness of everyday life: messy and complicated and still, always, worth living. Every Kind of Wanting is a wonder." --Marcy Dermansky, author of The Red Car and Bad Marie
Praise for A Life in Men
"A Life in Men is a terrific book, a tender story of friendship, and a frank story of a young woman's adventures with an assortment of oddly funny, violent, and quirky men. It's intense and beautifully written." --Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
"Original and fearless . . . A powerful portrait of human connection and individual triumph." --People, 3.5 stars out of 4
"Ambitious, heartfelt." --Nylon
"A beautifully written, fiercely intelligent, and psychologically nuanced portrayal of a friendship cut tragically short, the delicate balance of fate and choice, and the many varieties of love and family that create meaning . . . A Life in Men is a sort of joyous call to action. It will make you look more carefully at the time you have left." --The Oregonian
"Frangello's powerful novel is ambitious, relentless, and entirely unsentimental . . . A work of art." --The Boston Globe
"Frangello writes with a clarity into the human condition that allows her to lay bare the countless ways our lives are connected, between us and other people, but more importantly between ourselves and who we were and who we're becoming . . . The book's heartbreaking conclusion will leave you feeling you've been on the journey with these characters, and all the better for it." --The Kansas City Star
"Frangello writes with epic ferocity. She inhabits many countries brilliantly, many characters seamlessly, and a carousel of points of view . . . It takes courage to write a book like this." --Chicago Tribune, Printers Row
"A joyful, ambitious novel that is also an adventure traversing three continents, a meditation on love, sex, and, most important, friendship, which can overcome time, distance, and even death." --Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of Once Upon a River
"A stunning novel--Frangello's broken characters live in a world of terror and redemption, of magnificent sadness and beauty." --Kirkus Reviews
"In this bravura performance, a quantum creative leap . . . Frangello astutely dissects the quandaries of female sexuality, adoption, terminal illness, and compound heartbreak in a torrent of tough-minded observations, audacious candor, and storytelling moxie." --Booklist

Finalist for the 2016 Chicago Review of Books Award
"Urgent and stirring." --Laila Lalami, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Moor's Account

"[Frangello] has subverted the old-fashioned suburban narrative, and filled it with a constellation of quirky characters...Frangello threads conflicts over ethnicity, class, and sexuality into the novel, and injects a smart topicality that gives it special resonance."--National Book Review

"It's the balance between interior and exterior, tidiness and chaos, that makes Every Kind of Wanting so winsome. The reader sees the imperfections of these collective lives like a great tableau, as rich and human as a hand-hewn tapestry." --Shelf Awareness

"The families in Frangello's latest novel are truly in a category all their own...behind all the potential melodrama is a story that takes a serious look at race, class, sexuality, and loyalty -- in short, at the new American family." --The Millions' Great Anticipated Book List of 2016

"[A] poised and intuitive handling of the complexities of damaged and fragmented families." --Booklist

"A twisted novel of family...which poses big questions about love, fidelity, and parenthood...Fans of Frangello's work will enjoy this intricate portrait of the connections between an immigrant Latino family and moneyed North Shore magnates." --Kirkus

"Funny and also dark, with likable characters, Frangello's novel is recommended for fans of witty fiction such as titles by Curtis Sittenfeld." --Library Journal

"Powerful, provocative, multilayered...As in Gina Frangello's entire body of work, the nefarious, neurotic and quintessentially human qualities of her characters compel the reader to relate to them and root for them, despite or because of the sexy, scintillating messes they make of their lives." --Chicago Tribune

"Every Kind of Wanting deals with the kind of trauma that cracks you open over time...Frangello...is a sculptor who has carved out the truest and most intimate parts of a human life. The root of the novel is about lives being upended." --Chicago Review of Books, 2016 Chicago Review of Books Award Finalist for Fiction; 10 Best Books to Read This September

"A darkly funny tale." --Marie Claire

"Frangello's characters are flawed but sympathetic, and she brings up important points about race, class and sexuality. Read this if you've ever wondered how you'd fare in such a situation--or if you're just deeply curious about how such nontraditional pregnancies might play out in the real world." --PureWow, 10 Best Books to Read This Fall

"Frangello is an author who pushes boundaries...[T]he story fascinates and never falters. Frangello takes on an enthralling range of issues, from sexuality to assimilation, and keeping secrets is her greatest talent. Every page brings a new revelation, making the bitter end even sweeter." --The Globe and Mail

"Every Kind of Wanting is a powder-keg disguised as a domestic drama that detonates every one of out expectations of what it means to be a family." --San Diego CityBeat

"Every Kind of Wanting is grand in scope but intimate in detail. Like Love Actually, people cheat on each other, harbor secret loves, resent members of their own family, and confront the worst parts of themselves. Just don't expect a happy ending in the London airport." --Chicago magazine, The Year's Best Books About Chicago, by Chicagoans

"No one breathes complexity and compassion into their characters quite like Gina Frangello, and her latest novel, Every Kind Of Wanting, features another stellar ensemble." --Coast Magazine

"Every Kind of Wanting is not only a study in great character development, it is a consummate, emotionally sophisticated, and fiercely readable survey of the yearnings that shape our lives. Frangello is a writer's writer, and Every Kind of Wanting finds her at the top of her game." --Jonathan Evison, bestselling author of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

"A brilliant fusion of deep secrets, stunning lies, the murky past and the uncertain future, all couched around the very human cost of desire. So fearless and ambitious, the pages practically ignite." --Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You

"Desire is at the heart of Frangello's work, and whether we can survive it is central to this raw, wonderful, and unmistakably contemporary novel. This is the future that our conservative forebears were scared of, in all its messy, hopeful glory." --J. Ryan Stradal, New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen of the Great Midwest

"Frangello unspools an exquisitely layered story about desire that takes us to astonishing heights and necessary depths. In a novel that is sensual, shocking, and wise, she delivers truth after truth about lust--whether for a lover, for a baby, for (in)fidelity, for hidden meaning, or, as she so powerfully redefines it, for love." --Dylan Landis, author of Rainey Royal

"This is a novel about how we matter to each other, and why, and to what end. It is a labyrinthine story, complex, recursive, and crafted around the unflinchingly intimate honestly that marks everything Gina Frangello writes. What a brutal book. What a beautiful book." --Jill Alexander Essbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Hausfrau

"Gina Frangello's gifts are countless...Every Kind of ...

Finalist for the 2016 Chicago Review of Books Award
"Urgent and stirring." —Laila Lalami, Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Moor’s Account

Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families and their bustling efforts to have a "Community Baby." Miguel could not be more different from his partner Chad, a happy-go-lucky real estate mogul from Chicago's wealthy North Shore. When Chad's sister, Gretchen offers the couple an egg, their search for a surrogate leads them to Miguel's old friend Emily, happily married to an eccentric Irish playwright, Nick, with whom she is raising two boys. Into this web falls Miguel's sister Lina, a former addict and stripper, who begins a passionate affair with Nick while deciphering the mysteries of her past.

But every action these couples make has unforeseen consequences. As Lina faces her long-hidden demons, and the fragile friendships between Miguel and Chad and Nick and Emily begin to fray as the baby's birth draws near, a shocking turn of events—and the secret Lina's been hiding—threaten to break them apart forever.

By turns funny, dark and sexy, Every Kind of Wanting strips bare the layers of the American family today. Tackling issues such as assimilation, the legacy of secrets, the morality of desire, and ultimately who "owns" love, the characters—across all ethnicities, nationalities, and sexualities—are blisteringly alive.