Because They Wanted To

Love, desire, damage, cruelty and the fragile edges of human connection exposed in the stark light of Gaitskill’s vision.

Mary Gaitskill’s stories pierce straight into the private, unguarded corners of human life. With prose both restrained and electric, she writes about women and men caught in moments of vulnerability, lovers who bruise each other with need, strangers bound by fleeting encounters, and relationships where tenderness and cruelty blur into the same gesture.

From urban apartments to quiet bedrooms, each story exposes the charged spaces where intimacy meets alienation. Gaitskill never flinches; her characters stumble through obsession, loneliness, and longing, revealing uncomfortable truths about power, gender, and desire.

Because They Wanted To is a collection that resists sentimentality and embraces honesty. It is unsettling, provocative, and quietly devastating, a mirror to the raw places we rarely admit to but always recognize.

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