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Because They Wanted To by Mary Gaitskill Groundswell Speaker 2024 this compulsive'A perfectly formed set of stories about alienation in modern times' Independent 'Mesmerizing almost ecstatic' The New York Times Mary Gaitskill's coolly compelling, quietly devastating stories explore the messy complexity of relationships between lovers, families and friends. An unsettling encounter on a plane; a tentative affair between an older woman and a younger man; the chasm between a father and his daughter: each expresses our longing for, and