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The Not Wives by Carley Moore6/24/2023 ![]() "Audacious and exhilarating in its candor, The Not Wives captures the heady mix of pleasures and agonies necessary to turn one's life in a new, truer direction. ![]() 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. "A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, and human frailty." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The Not Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall Street movement and each other. An Occupy-era New York City novel following three women. ![]()
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