Work In Progress

How We Live Now

Jane Howlett is a modern woman—she’s a dedicated mother, she works outside the home, she works inside the home, she works all the damn time. She is married to Nick, a modern man—unfocussed, distracted, and incapable of sustained attention. They have a modern marriage—that is to say, it is subject to many of the usual modern stressors: not enough money, not enough time, the overwhelming demands of parenting in an age of over parenting—and then there is something not quite right about seven-year-old Raleigh…