Fiction Attic Press Debut Novel Prize (Past & Future)
Return on Investment by Magdalena Waz
As the year comes to an end, we thought we’d share with you a few of our books in print. Today, we wanted to share RETURN on INVESTMENT—a brief, brilliant, and very funny novel about the intersection of love and commerce, by Magdalena Waz.
If you’re interested in seeing the kind of fiction we love, grab a copy.
“Reads like the birth of a brand new genre…an ambitious, audacious debut.” -Joseph Bates, author of Tomorrowland
About the Book:
When recent college grad Laurie hires herself out as a human breast pump, she underestimates the devotion she will inspire in new moms desperate to be relieved of the machinery of lactation. Soon, the situation at her day job goes sour, and she devises a plan to work less and earn more.
A dreamer at best and a steam-roller at worst, Laurie sets out to prove that there are better ways to make a living than holding down an office job.Her second scheme draws a young housekeeper, a male bachelorette party babysitter, and a data entry clerk into the business of manufactured intimacy. By the time Laurie realizes the hidden dangers of her new business, there's no easy way out.
Sharp,, insightful, and wickedly funny, Return on Investment will appeal to fans of Maria Semple, Jess Walter, and
.Praise for Return on Investment
"Return on Investment is a coming-of-age tale unlike any I have ever read. A quartet of unlikely friends massively in debt and interminably adrift in the post-collegiate, post-recession, start-up economy. The wild scheme that joins them together somehow manages to both satirize and sympathetically explore that wobbling time between youth and adulthood. Swiftly told, at turns hilarious and poignant, Return on Investment is worth every second you put into it."
David McGlynn, author of A Door in the Ocean
A smart, dark, deceptively powerful novel about the uneasy intersection of love and commerce.
We’ll be sharing more of our print titles in coming weeks, including our flash fiction anthologies (comprised of very short stories originally published on Fiction Attic) and Albanian fiction in translation.
And we’ll be running a Debut Novella Contest in 2024…stay tuned to learn more.
Thank you for reading Fiction Attic Press!