| Vendor | |
|---|---|
|
Mohrbooks Literary Agency
Sebastian Ritscher |
| Original language | |
| English | |
THE NOT WIVES
THE NOT WIVES is a feminist and timely novel about three women in contemporary New York City and the way they define themselves and their place in the world as independent women and "not wives".
Stevie is a writer, professor, and mother in New York City struggling to find her way in the tumultuous negative space that her impending divorce has created; free-spirited Mel is in love with her wife but craves the unknown of an open marriage; and young Johanna is homeless, sleeping in Washington Square Park and clinging to an abusive boyfriend. A young female student's suicide that Stevie and Johanna both witness forces all three women to examine not only their own competing desires, but the polarities of the world they live in: the privileged and the poor, the radical and the complacent, the powerful and the weak.
Moore's novel crosses the bravery of Merritt Tierce's LOVE ME BACK and Kathryn Heiny's SINGLE, CAREFREE, MELLOW with the electricity of BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY in its unapologetic portrait of what is to be a wife or mother or not-wife, and daringly strives to solve how we piece together shifting ideas about sexuality and parenting for a new American existence in the midst of financial and societal turmoil. A story of reinvention focused on three women, THE NOT WIVES is ultimately a universal creed for all women demanding freedom not just from confining norms, but freedom from those who create those expectations in the first place.
With breathtaking prose, Moore delivers a heartbreaking examination of the reality of being young, female, and poor in New York City.
Carley Moore is the author of 13 Pills, a collection of personal essays forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions and The Stalker Chronicles, a young adult novel published by FSG in 2012. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Brainchild, The Brooklyn Rail, The Establishment, GUTS, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Nervous Breakdown, and Public Books. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Writing in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University and a Senior Associate at Bard College's Institute for Writing and Thinking.
Moore's novel crosses the bravery of Merritt Tierce's LOVE ME BACK and Kathryn Heiny's SINGLE, CAREFREE, MELLOW with the electricity of BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY in its unapologetic portrait of what is to be a wife or mother or not-wife, and daringly strives to solve how we piece together shifting ideas about sexuality and parenting for a new American existence in the midst of financial and societal turmoil. A story of reinvention focused on three women, THE NOT WIVES is ultimately a universal creed for all women demanding freedom not just from confining norms, but freedom from those who create those expectations in the first place.
With breathtaking prose, Moore delivers a heartbreaking examination of the reality of being young, female, and poor in New York City.
Carley Moore is the author of 13 Pills, a collection of personal essays forthcoming from Tinderbox Editions and The Stalker Chronicles, a young adult novel published by FSG in 2012. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Brainchild, The Brooklyn Rail, The Establishment, GUTS, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Nervous Breakdown, and Public Books. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Writing in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University and a Senior Associate at Bard College's Institute for Writing and Thinking.
| Available products |
|---|
|
Book
Published 2019-09-10 by Feminist Press |
|
Book
Published 2019-09-10 by Feminist Press |