An edgy, comic, and disturbing debut-a hip Diary of a Mad Housewife.
Julia slavin's tales are bulletins from the front. Suburban young marrieds, the narrators have been stranded by their careers, their homes, their lives. Amidst the punishing ...
A New York Times Notable Book: Darkly comic fables of modern life from a “major discovery” whose “writing gets in your bloodstream like a fever” (The Washington Post Book World). A housewife with a ravenous lust for the adolescent boy ...
A wildly imaginative tragicomedy about a fantastical animal on the prowl and its affection for one troubled family. Wendy Dunleavy is desperately trying to hold her family together. But with her politician husband in prison for corruption and her son...