My first novel, "The Cusp of Dreams" (Lulu, 2010) was conceived in the tradition of Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman" (1949) and David Mamet’s "Glengarry Glen Ross" (1984). It examines the downsizing of America that began with the death of manufacturing in the 1980s and is a fictionalized portrayal of my experiences. The novel dares to ask one of the last great unanswered questions of theater and fiction: What happens when women in the workplace become as venal as their male counterparts? Ideally, the novel shocks and offends while revealing those truths we strive desperately to conceal.