A rollicking novel about two city slickers who inherit a rural house with disastrous consequences (they run over the town mascot—a wild boar—on their initial journey to the home) as they cling to their deteriorating marriage. Lily digs up her ancestor's missing maid and wards off the boar's crazy owner while Duncan works on a sexist ad campaign that mocks the Vietnam War.
New World Monkeys by Nancy Mauro
Reviewed by: Arsen
Book Club: Let’s Talk About ‘Good Material,’ by Dolly Alderton
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The writer Dolly Alderton has long had an avid following in her native
England, but with her best-selling comic novel “Good Material” she’s become
a trans-...
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