Likes

Likes

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

Likes won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Story Prize, was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, and was named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal, Electric Literature, The New York Public Library, and PopMatters. Nine stories that capture the tensions that exist between technology, parenthood and growing up. Through unexpected visitors, school fairs, aging indie-film stars, capitalist shell games, and the Instagram posts of a twelve-year-old girl, these stories of friendship and parenthood, celebrity and obsession, race and class, and the passage of time form an engrossing collection that is both otherworldly and suffused with the charged hum of everyday life. Mythic and modern, Likes uses quick, masterful, nearly invisible cuts to help us see into our unacknowledged desires and exposes the roots of our abiding terrors and delights.