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  • Published: 25 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9798892423250
  • Imprint: Crooked Lane Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $70.00

Clementine Crane Prefers Not To

A Novel

  • Kristin Bair



For fans of Maria Semple, Clementine Crane is a one-woman whirlwind, managing every aspect of her family’s life—until she hits her breaking point. In this quirky and heartfelt novel, author Kristin Bair explores family, community, and womanhood with sharp wit and keen insight.

For fans of Maria Semple, Clementine Crane is a one-woman whirlwind, managing every aspect of her family’s life—until she hits her breaking point. In this quirky and heartfelt novel, author Kristin Bair explores family, community, and womanhood with sharp wit and keen insight.

Clementine Crane has a few things on her plate: She keeps the peace, picks up the slack, and always puts everyone else first. But when her first hot flash strikes, perimenopause sends her into a tailspin. Between a husband who can’t navigate a revolving door without her, three kids who treat her as their fixer, and a career stuck in neutral, Clementine begins to wonder: When is enough enough?

Overwhelmed and fed up, Clementine takes a stand—one small refusal at a time. She goes on strike, ditching obligations, setting boundaries, and venting her frustrations on social media. When her raw, hilarious, and unexpectedly poignant videos go viral, Clementine finds herself at the heart of a movement she never saw coming.

Clementine can’t stay on strike forever, but can she let a few things fall through the cracks—before she cracks again? Speaking to the emotional, and often invisible, labor that so many women bear, Clementine Crane finally asks: When does it become too much?

  • Published: 25 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9798892423250
  • Imprint: Crooked Lane Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $70.00

Praise for Clementine Crane Prefers Not To

Praise for Agatha Arch is Afraid of Everything:
"An uproarious send-up of modern suburbia."
People

“Fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Elinor Oliphant Is Fine will love this clever romp.”
Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Kristin Bair is a fresh new voice in women’s fiction."
—Ann Garvin, USA Today bestselling author