Persephone Wright
Persephone Wright writes humorous contemporary women’s fiction about competent women, ordinary absurdities, invisible expectations, and the moment someone finally asks, How did this become my job?
With warmth, wit, and affection for imperfect people trying to do better, her stories explore family, friendships, boundaries, responsibility, and the small everyday moments that somehow become much bigger questions.
Someone Used the Last of the Toilet Paper is a sharp, funny, warmhearted novel about one over-capable woman who finally stops fixing everything long enough to find out what happens when everyone else has to notice.
That Is Not What I Asked You is a sharp, funny novel about a mother, her teenage son, and the apparently impossible task of getting a simple answer to a simple question.
Not My Cat is a warm, sharply funny novel about a mother who discovers that somewhere between “just this once” and “Mom, the litter box smells,” she has accidentally become operations manager for her teenager’s cat.
I AM LITERALLY RIGHT HERE is a laugh-out-loud Mom-Com about a mother, her geographically challenged teenager, and the school pickup line that turns a five-minute errand into an ongoing test of communication, patience, and traffic-cone loyalty.
Why Are Adults Embarrassing? is a sharp, warm mom-com about a mother learning that giving her teenage son room to become himself does not require becoming less herself.
Why Is This Wet? is a laugh-out-loud domestic comedy about a capable woman who discovers that everyone in her family notices household problems—they just apparently never realized noticing was supposed to lead to doing something.
Apparently Everyone Knew Except Me is a sharp, hilarious mom-com about a mother discovering that her seventeen-year-old daughter has had a boyfriend for eight months—and that apparently everyone, including the cat, knew before she did.
No, You Can’t Have French Fries for Dinner is a warm, laugh-out-loud Mom-Com about a decade-old dinner argument, one family’s spectacularly unreliable memories, and a mother discovering that the moments her son remembers most are the ones she never knew she was making.
The Plumber Is Here and I’m Not is a sharp, hilarious mom-com about a woman who discovers that being the person who always knows everything has somehow made everything her job.
What Do You Mean, We? turns one husband’s favorite phrase into a hilariously precise lesson about marriage, mental load, and the difference between helping and taking ownership.