{"product_id":"not-wives","title":"Not Wives","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNot Wives\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCarley Moore\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781936932689\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eAmethyst Editions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2019\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet in Occupy-era New York City, this novel follows sex-positive awakening and burgeoning political resistance in the lives of three women: A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, and human frailty\" (\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Not Wives\u003c\/em\u003e traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall Street movement and each other. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Audacious and exhilarating in its candor, \u003cem\u003eThe Not Wives\u003c\/em\u003e captures the heady mix of pleasures and agonies necessary to turn one's life in a new, truer direction. Carley Moore attends to the complexities of urban living and activism with riveting clarity.\" --Idra Novey, author of \u003cem\u003eThose Who Knew\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Amethyst Editions","offers":[{"title":"Not Wives | Carley Moore | Paperback | 9781936932689 | New | Fiction 1209282","offer_id":50550520742146,"sku":"1209282","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81kUgPVYEcL.jpg?v=1790467893","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/not-wives","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}