Wanting: A Novel PG_Gift_Guide Even here at the Empire’s

Even here at the Empire’s borders

the critically acclaimed author of How to Be Alone

Writing in response to our current “constitutional crisis

When They Tell You to Be Good shines a light on what we all must ask of ourselves

Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s

Wanting: A Novel PG_Gift_Guide Even here at the Empire’sA Best Literary Novel of 2025 from ELLE A searing debut novel of envy, longing, and regret across three lives and two countries that asks how far well go for a friendship, a romance, a dream. Ye Lian is thriving in Beijing. She has a well paid job, a nice boyfriend, and plans to marry and move into a luxury high rise apartment. Shes wanting for nothinguntil her childhood best friend, Luo Wenyu, comes whirling back into her life after a decade in