An insightful and drolly satirical novel about contemporary
romance--the kind of book Jane Austen would've written had she been male
and hipper.
-Chicago Tribune
Look out for Nick Laird's new novel, Modern Gods, coming in June
2017
With his debut novel, Utterly Monkey, Nick Laird won acclaim on both
sides of the Atlantic for his deft humor and sharp-eyed powers of
observation. In this new novel, disaffected thirty-something college
teacher David introduces his former teacher, American artist Ruth Marks,
to his friend and flatmate James Glover, unwittingly setting in place a
love triangle loaded with tension, guilt, and heartbreak. Set in the
London art scene awash with new money and intellectual pretension, Nick
Laird's insightful and drolly satirical novel explores the nature of
contemporary romance among damaged souls whose hearts and heads never
quite line up long enough for them to achieve true happiness.