"Vivid and fresh and finely crafted, this is a book that will strike a
chord with anyone who has loved, lived, or wondered how we manage, in
the face of our fragility, to carry on." -- Nino Ricci This is the story
of Zee, an aimless ex-lawyer who has turned his inability to make a
decision into a fine art, and his wife, Alex, a practical and
hard-working social worker who feels her biological clock ticking
loudly. Reverberating with the emotional crises of the urban adult, Alex
& Zee is an offbeat portrait of contemporary relationships, full of
wickedly astute observations of city life and its multifarious life
forms. Grimly hilarious at every turn, this is a terrific debut novel.
Nominated for the 1995 W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award and
the recipient of widespread critical acclaim, Alex & Zee is the
long-awaited reissue of Cordelia Strube's biting take on contemporary
romance.