The hilarious tale of a newly full-time dad and awards-show "plus one" whose TV-writer wife has hit the big time
Christopher Noxon's debut novel Plus One is a comedic take on breadwinning women and caretaking men in contemporary Los Angeles. Alex Sherman-Zicklin is a mid-level marketing executive whose wife's fourteenth attempt at a television pilot is produced, ordered to series, and awarded an Emmy. Overnight, she's sucked into a mad show-business vortex and he's tasked with managing their new high-profile Hollywood lifestyle. He falls in with a posse of Plus Ones, men who are married to women whose success, income, and public recognition far surpasses their own. What will it take for him to regain the foreground in his own life?
Christopher Noxon
is an accomplished journalist who has written for such publications as the New Yorker, Details, Los Angeles magazine,
Salon, and the New York Times Magazine. His first book, Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the
American Grown-Up, earned him interviews on such shows as The Colbert Report and Good Morning America and generated
features in USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and Talk of the Nation. Noxon happens to be
married to a top TV writer-producer and does the school chauffeuring for their
three children, so he knows whereof he speaks regarding Plus Ones. He lives in
Los Angeles.View all by Christopher Noxon
