“Carley Moore exults in portraying the grit, drama, confusion, and ecstasy of her diverse characters’ daily lives. When we say report back, this is what we mean!” -Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl “ The Not Wives is gritty, sexy, very queer, literary social realism that's up-all-night compelling-just what I want from a novel set in NYC in the time of Occupy, with its sprawling cast of adjuncts, bartenders, poets, single parents, little kids, homeless teenagers, and serious organizers embroiled in various romantic and economic complications. ”A complex, many-tiered story.” - Fiction Writers Review “A terrific literary novel about what it means to belong to yourself while trying to be a part of something bigger.” - Independent Book Review “A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, and human frailty.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) 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. The Not Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall Street movement and each other.
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