AntiSeptic

by Maura Stone

When you combine Dirty Dancing with A Clockwork Orange, you have AntiSeptic—a scathing tale of living year-round in a famous remote summer resort penned by the award-winning author of Five-Star FLEECING and the SMUT SNARK SATIRE series. Corruption and scandal abound from the top of the bucolic Borscht Belt mountains to the fields of The Great Festival among an improbable mix of tourists, residents, cultists, artistes, and wildlife.

5-Star Review:
by Pikasho Deka for Readers' Favorite
Drawing inspiration from her experiences, AntiSeptic by Maura Stone is a comedy drama. After losing her high-paying job on Wall Street, Maura had to sell her apartment in the city and move to her family's summer cottage on the shores of Lake Colitis in Camelot, Septic County, New York. Little did she know everything would turn upside down as she tried to navigate small-town life, broke and unemployed. If annoying neighbors and gossiping postmasters weren't enough, Septic County's unruly tourists, ultra-religious people, summer homeowners, corrupt officials, and most of all, the inhabitants of Camelot, soon make her life a living hell. Additionally, Maura is diagnosed with a brain tumor, and her failure to pay property taxes threatens to put her house on auction.
AntiSeptic is a rip-roaring account of a woman trying to come to terms with a place and its people who live different lives than she was used to. Maura Stone infuses humor and heart that feels part memoir/part comedy/part drama. As readers, we see the events unfold through the eyes of Maura, and you can feel the frustration and anger brewing inside her as she deals with ever-increasing chaotic situations and circumstances. Maura's rapidly deteriorating relationships with Butterfly and Hilaria were hilarious, considering she favored one over the other for quite some time. Overall, a thoroughly entertaining novel that will give you a chuckle or two.

226 pages, Paperback

Published April 20, 2022

About the author

Maura Stone is a comedy writer with eight books under her belt, three awards, and praise from literary critics. She finds it therapeutic to weave her life choices into stories rather than spend money on therapy. Through humor her books address her issues of integrity and consequences from standing up for what’s right. Her unexpectedly profound insights and edgy unforgettable adventures leave readers inspired to rethink their moral high ground. She has even set a new standard for satire due to her unique style, taking the genre of autofiction to an exciting new direction. Maura lives upstate New York with her feral feline companion, Maxwell.