The Triangle Pose

by Mary Welp

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.

278 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005