Mark Rader's The Wanting Life is somehow both quiet and deeply unsettling.
A profound meditation on what we owe others and also ourselves, it balances the pleasure of getting to know a handful of vivid characters with the disconcerting awareness that their moral choices are, seeming by design, as impossible as our own.
--Richard Russo, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Nobody's Fool Set in Rome, Cape Cod, and Wisconsin over the course of.
