Wife & WifeA new masterpiece of modern queer fiction, Wife & Wife is a sharply observed and deeply moving story of love, discovery, and defiance told through the eyes of two women who meet as housewives in the 1950s and triumphantly marry in 2011. It is 1955 in the sedate, affluent suburb of Pearls Cove, New York. Twenty five year old housewife and mother of two Ruth Wolf is a glamorous platinum blonde who secretly devours lesbian pulp fiction shoplifted from

***Updated and expanded with new material from the author and new foreword from Rachel Kushner***

arguing that a legal system comprised only of men -- male judges

nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of it all

Then everything goes black

with calls from the killer’s previous victims

from peas and new potatoes to scorzonera and oriental salad leaves

1963: Viewing the formation of a new political entity

meaning and authentic success in every facet of their lives

To complicate the situation

under the basket

where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about life

Recollections of her own circuitous career path