Wife & Wife: A Novel

A 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 Pearl’s 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 the local drugstore. But nothing about her...