by NRB | 19 Apr 2018 | Fiction |
Mrs is a sometimes witty, sometimes satirical, and sometimes very dark exposé of the cut-throat world of modern motherhood. What might a reader expect from a novel with the title of Mrs? A protagonist who is a married woman? Check. A setting in which she is surrounded...
by NRB | 8 Dec 2016 | Fiction |
Not Working is a novel for the millennial generation. The 21st century is one giant tangle of paradoxes. We have better and easier access to information than ever before, yet we seem less certain about anything. We are more educated than our grandparents could have...
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