Playworld: A Novel by Adam Ross (HC) Persephone Books the novel’s brisk pacing

the novel’s brisk pacing

As a ruthlessly honest interrogation of family dynamics

it’s…rewarding and thought-provoking ― Financial Times

gender violence and the truths families refuse to face

Playworld: A Novel by Adam Ross (HC) Persephone Books the novel’s brisk pacingIn the fall of 1980, when I was fourteen, a friend of my parents named Naomi Shah fell in love with me. She was thirty six, a mother of two, and married to a wealthy man. Like so many things that happened to me that year, it didnt seem strange at the time. Griffin Hurt is in over his head. Between his role as Peter Proton on the hit TV show The Nuclear Family and the pressure of high school at New York's elite Boyd Prepalong with the increasingly