The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf

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Two Shakespearean actors in an unconventional marriage get caught up in a renowned director's scheme that will bring them closer than ever or rip them apart for good. Two Shakespearean actors in an unconventional marriage get caught up in a renowned director's scheme that will bring them closer than ever or rip them apart for good. Up-and-coming stage actress Margaret Shoard has just taken a bow as Lady Macbeth, the role she has always believed was destined for her. At home, she plays wife to her best friend Wesley, even if she doesn't hold his sole attention romantically. After a public breakdown threatens all she holds dear, Margaret's doctor prescribes her uppers-just a little help to get through the days. When Wesley is invited by eccentric director Vaughn Kline to join the cast for an inaugural Shakespeare performance in the New Mexico desert, Margaret decides to accompany him in hopes the time away will set her back to rights . . . but the world she finds in Vaughn's company is filled with duplicity and betrayal. Margaret and Wesley, embroiled in an affair with a man who may not be all he seems, must find a way forward together before their story becomes the real tragedy.

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"The Unbecoming of Margaret Wolf is a triumph of genre-melding: a Shakespearean revenge plot by way of a flinty-eyed Western standoff with noir-inflected stakes (and crackling dialogue to match). An absorbing page-turner about a woman always determined to obliterate herself in the performance of her next role, and the people who refuse to let her." Olivia Wolfgang-Smith, author of Mutual Interest and Glassworks

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Isa Arsen is a certified bleeding heart and audio engineer based in South Texas, where she lives with her spouse and a comically small dog.