Banal Nightmare

'So funny, so smart, utterly vicious - just brilliant' ZADIE SMITH'Butler's sense of humour should be studied and celebrated' DAVID SEDARIS'Halle Butler is a first-rate satirist of the horror show being sold to us as Modern Femininity. She is Thomas Bernhard in a bad mood, wearing ill-fitting tights, scrutinizing old take-out leftovers' CATHERINE LACEY'The voice of a (tired, furious, disappointed, disoriented) generation' LITHUBMargaret Anne ('Moddie') Yance has just returned to her hometown, to mingle with the friends of her youth, to get back in touch with her roots, and to recover from a stressful decade of living in the city in a small apartment with a man she now believed to be a megalomaniac or perhaps a covert narcissist.