Peyton Amberg by Tama Janowitz

• Veria Central Public Library, Greece

Peyton Amberg is a young woman growing ever restless in her marriage, and ever hopeful that the next bed will produce someone more exciting. As she moves from man to man, she slowly but surely loses her youthfulness, her good looks, even her sanity, as her paramours become rougher and the sex more dangerous.

Peyton Amberg is a caustic and brilliant satire of contemporary marriage as it is undermined by free-floating lust and the exploits of a woman yearning for fulfilment outside of a rigid societal structure. It is nasty, funny, jaundiced, sarcastic, searingly honest, and mesmerizing from beginning to end.

Tama Janowitz is the author of eight previous works including the bestselling Slaves of New York and The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group. She has received two National Endowment for the Arts awards for fiction and the Alfred Hodder Fellowship in the Humanities from Princeton University. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and the New York Times Magazine and has been translated into twenty languages. Tama Janowitz lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.