A sharply observed comic novel about a writer straining against the role of faculty wife This first novel from the acclaimed memoirist Emily Fox Gordon is a tart, intelligent comedy of manners set on the campus of a large Southern university. It i...
Madeleine and Jane, both in their early twenties, arrive separately in Manhattan in January 1968. Jane is an aspiring writer seeking adventure, Madeleine, a fragile young woman fleeing an erotic nightmare. They meet by chance and throw in as roommate...