![]() ![]() ”A complex, many-tiered story.” - Fiction Writers Review “A terrific literary novel about what it means to belong to yourself while trying to be a part of something bigger.” - Independent Book Review ![]() “A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, and human frailty.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In the midst of economic collapse and class conflict, late-night hookups and long-suffering exes, the three characters piece together a new American identity founded on resistance-against the looming shadow of financial precarity, the gentrification of New York, and the traditional role of wife. Stevie is a nontenured professor and recently divorced single mom her best friend Mel is a bartender, torn between her long-term girlfriend and her desire to explore polyamory and Johanna is a homeless teenager trying to find her way in the world, who bears shared witness to a tragedy that interlaces her life with Stevie’s. The Not Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall Street movement and each other. ![]()
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