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ANNA WALLACE, COLLEGE professor, food writer, and unabashed political leftist, has an ambitious newspaper editor for a husband and a baby on the way. The last thing she needs is a romantic infatuation with uber-conservative Jasper Clayquot, a sanctimonious yet charming speechwriter for right-wing Kentucky politician Emmett McCubben. But that's exactly what Anna gets in The Triangle Pose. Anna's comedic and ironic dilemma has much to say about the triangulated tensions among body, mind, and what the spirit craves. Anyone who has ever longed for a forbidden relationship--or tangled with an ideological adversary--will be won over by Anna’s voice. Anyone who has ever wrestled with the ways society defines us through work, family, friendship, food, politics, and religion will find a soul mate in Anna Wallace. Through the honest, sometimes biting social commentary of hyper-intelligent Anna, The Triangle Pose offers readers an unflinching assessment of contemporary right-wing politics, religion, and traditional family life. |
DON'T BE DECEIVED by the title: The Triangle Pose, Mary Welp's provocative first novel, has more in common with a knock-out punch in a boxing ring than a tranquil stance on a yoga mat. The novel's protagonist, a brainy food columnist who moonlights as a lit instructor at a local college, leaves no hypocrisy unearthed or unexamined, including those that take root in her own left-of-center life—namely, her unexpected attraction to a Republican politico. The Triangle Pose is one of those uncommon novels that seamlessly blend the personal with the political, a tale of love and friendship against a backdrop of neo-con self-righteousness. With a wicked grasp of the contemporary cultural landscape, Welp spins a story that is, at once, drop-dead funny (think Jon Stewart, Lorrie Moore) and ripped-from-the-headlines dead-serious. —Dianne Aprile, author of The Eye is Not Enough: On Seeing and Remembering |
MARY WELP HAS not forgotten that literature started out as entertainment, and The Triangle Pose is a stunner, paced by dancing prose, quick wit, and characters who consistently surprise the reader. Yet it is held together by utmost seriousness: a woman on her own dealing with the way we live now. In The Triangle Pose, I found a charming story, one that is still with me. —Kirby Gann, author of Our Napoleon in Rags AMONG THE MULTIPLE pleasures of The Triangle Pose are a biting wit, a sharp eye and a smooth, engaging narrative, but larger than all of these are its characters: Anna Wallace, tart-tongued new mother and wavering wife, Jasper Clayquot, infuriatingly stubborn conservative political writer who is also Anna's surprisingly tender suitor, their spouses, friends and relatives. No matter how briefly on the page, even the minor characters are full-blooded, and Anna and Jasper, as they flirt with each other and disaster, come to seem not people we've read about, but ones we've lived with. —Paul Griner, author of Collectors |
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