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An Occupy-era New York City novel following three women. "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. 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. 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.Review Quotes: Praise for 16 Pills "16 Pills doesn't offer easy answers, instead it invites the reader to become comfortable with uncertainty. . . . Ultimately a journey toward optimism and hope, a journey toward self-discovery and acceptance. If only we all could cast light into the dark corners of ourselves with such alacrity." ―PANK Magazine "16 Pills is everything I want in an essay collection--rawness and humor, intimacy, problems, solutions, and a searing, radical intellect holding us in her brilliance. I devoured this jam-packed, revelatory book, and you will too." --Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, and Criticisms "Like sitting with a super keen and deeply forthright friend, 16 Pills confronts childhood, parenting, disability, patriarchy, books, ideas, dating, and sex with an unflinching eye and generous heart; Moore bravely reveals her successes, flaws, and failings as a mirror to our own. A must-read on femaleness and feminism and 21st-century middle age, 16 Pills in an alarmingly honest, crucially timely book." ―Lynn Melnick, author of Landscape with Sex and Violence Praise for The Stalker Chronicles "Moore paints a picture of an awkward girl who, more than anything, just doesn't know how to engage with other people. Her characters are complex and sympathetic, particularly Cammie's family, as it tries to hold itself together." ―Publishers Weekly