"Damn near perfect"

—starred review Kirkus

The Things Between Us

The Montgomery’s of Framingham, Massachusetts are among the last of a dying breed—New England WASPS who effortlessly combine repression, flamboyant eccentricity and alcoholism. Fragmented by drink and dysfunction, the family had avoided assembling under one roof for more than a decade. But when Big Dad, the patriarch, was diagnosed with stomach cancer, the siblings returned to their childhood home, Four Corner Farm, to help their parents navigate specialists, treatment options, pain management, and, most difficult of all, their own anguish. The Things Between Us is Lee Montgomery’s alternately wrenching and riotous story of the final family reunion.

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“Lee  Montgomery can make us laugh even while she breaks our hearts...a fierce, witty, beautiful written collection.”

—Margot Livesy, author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy 

Whose World Is This?

LEE MONTGOMERY’s stories capture moments in women’s lives when, pushed to the edge they teeter between the complete bewilderment of loss and the possibility of found. These are not stories about diets, designer jeans, and bad boyfriends; these are stories that reveal the raw interior worlds of women who have come of age on the heels of Betty Crocker and in the hem of Betty Friedan. Tender, poignant, and at times hilarious, the women in Whose World Is This? turn common notions of love, compassion, and tradition upside down as they show us how vulnerability, although dangerous, is what makes life astonishingly beautiful and reality strangely unreal.

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"With nearly one hundred participating writers, artists, and designer, this project embraces the disparate fields of visual art, literature and design."

—Nothing Moments

Searching for Emily

Searching for Emily was part of a project by Los Angeles artist Steven Hull and Nothing Moments Press that presented a unique collaboration between artists, designers, and writers. Consisting of twenty-four limited edition books and more than four-hundred original drawings, Nothing Moments expanded on the relay-inspired process Hull had explored in previous projects, whereby the work of one artist is responded to and expanded on by another. In Nothing Moments, each book begins with a fiction text authored by a contributing writer. (In addition to Lee, writers include Aimee Bender, Amy Gerstler, Benjamin Weissman, Jim Krusoe, Lynn Tillman, Chris Sorrentino among others.) This text was then passed to a contributing artist who made drawings in response to the story. Finally, the text and art were given to a designer who created a unique design.

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