Halle Butler

In a windowless office, women stand in a circle. One explains something from her real, non-work life—about the frustration and indignity of returning an item she bought online. One wears a topknot. Another checks her pedometer. Watching them all is Millie. Thirty years old and an eternal temp, she says almost nothing, almost all of the time. But then the...

Halle Butler is a first-rate satirist of the horror show being sold to us as Modern Femininity. She is Thomas Bernhard in a bad mood, wearing ill-fitting tights, scrutinizing old take-out leftovers. Catherine Lacey Her sense of humour should be studied and celebrated. David Sedaris Margaret Anne ("Moddie") Yance has just returned to her hometown, to mingle with the friends...