A savagely smart, darkly comic literary debut, New World Monkeys exposes the false idols of marital tranquility, small-town idyll, and corporate Darwinism in the dazzling voice of a major new talent.

"New World Monkeys belongs to a distinct subgenre that we don't see too often anymore: Educated-Women's Lit...closely resembles the works of Alison Lurie, Diane Johnson and Alice Adams."—Washington Post