Loyalties collide with long-buried love, a man builds a nuclear bomb in his garage, and children walk up walls. The stories in What You Need
beautifully recount the rawness of human experience. Andrew Forbes's
characters struggle to escape the things that hold them in their
all-too-ordinary lives, falling victim to fate, to one another, and to
self-sabotage. These are stories about failure and yearning, yet they
remind us of the humour and humanity in even the worst decisions.