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Because They Wanted To publishing until the last layer ofMary Gaitskills coolly compelling, quietly devastating stories explore the messy complexity of relationships between lovers, families and friends. moreAn 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 our fear of, human connection.