We All Need to Eat: Stories is a linked collection that follows Soma, a queer woman in Vancouver, as she grows from childhood into her late thirties. Each story captures a turning point in her life, tracing how family history, desire, and grief shape her search for belonging.

Set against the city’s shifting landscape, the collection moves through breakups and addictions, uneasy family dinners, and small acts of care. Soma tries to manage her mother’s deepening instability, fixating on a lamp that might ease seasonal depression, and wrestles with her complicated bond with her younger brother after leaving home.

Running beneath these intimate moments is the long shadow of her family’s experience of the Holocaust and the disturbing rise of Alt Right media, showing how inherited trauma collides with contemporary politics. The stories blend lyrical language with gritty detail, refusing easy answers while revealing the tensions and contradictions of everyday life.

We All Need to Eat will appeal to readers of queer fiction and literary short stories who are drawn to character-driven narratives about identity, mental health, and intergenerational memory.

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