Stories by @noahpayeur

Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Twenty-four-year-old British painter Cleo has escaped from England to New York and is still finding her place in the sleepless city when, a few months before her student visa ends, she meets Frank. Twenty years older and a self-made success, Frank's life is full of all the excesses Cleo's lacks. He offers her the chance to be happy, the freedom to paint, and the opportunity to apply for a Green Card. But their impulsive marriage irreversibly changes both their lives, and the lives of those close to them, in ways they never could've predicted. Each compulsively readable chapter explores the lives of Cleo, Frank, and an unforgettable cast of their closest friends and family as they grow up and grow older. Whether it's Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo's marriage, or Frank's financially dependent sister arranging sugar daddy dates to support herself after being cut off, or Cleo and Frank themselves as they discover the trials of marriage and mental illness, each character is as absorbing, and painfully relatable, as the last. As hilarious as it is heartbreaking, entertaining as it is deeply moving, Cleopatra and Frankenstein marks the entry of a brilliant and bold new talent.

The Good Person of Setzuan

In the city of Szechwan, three Gods look for one person who is still a good soul in today's atheistic society.

The Seagull

A play about unrequited love in the acting scene in Ukraine.

A Doll House

The awakening of a middle-class wife and mother.

Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel about the rich couple Dick and Nicole Diver, living on the Riviera in the 1920's which is slowly drawn into the coming depression as they deal with issues of mental health, alcoholism, and infidelity.

The House of Mirth

It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York City's high society around the end of the 19th century. "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth"

The Great Gatsby

Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.