New World Monkeys
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 majojr 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
• "A debut novel that cannily and artfully shows the wild side of human nature...With narration that sounds at times like the work of Zadie Smith, NEW WORLD MONKEYS weaves a funny and macabre tale."&mdashBookpage
• "[A] trippy, hilarious debut."—MORE Magazine
• "Nancy Mauro's darkly comedic debut novel quickly veers from one eccentric plot twist to another, making for a fascinating and compelling read."—Very Short List
• "Unabashedly eccentric...fun, funny, and touching—a great summer book."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
• "Debut novelist Mauro perfectly balances humor and soulfulness in this poisonously funny, torchlight eerie, psychologically astute tale of archaic instincts, deviance, and violence. A provocative tale of evolutionary short-circuits and the wildness that flows beneath civilization's flimsy veneer."—Booklist (starred review)
• "A onetime advertising executive herself, [Mauro] offers a knowingly damning portrait of Duncan's profession—her delineation of people slipping into a kind of subhuman, pre-rational state is chilling. It's also frequently very funny and strangely moving...A brave and accomplished debut: weird, disturbing and intensely engaging."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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