Product Description
Tuck's unnamed narrator lives with her new husband, his two teenagers, and the unbanishable presence of his first wife—known only as she. Obsessed with her, our narrator moves through her days presided over by the all-too-real ghost of the first marriage, fantasizing about how the first wife lives her life. Will the narrator ever equal she intellectually, or ever forget the betrayal that lies between them? And what of the secrets between her husband and she, from which the narrator is excluded? The daring and precise build up to an eerily wonderful denouement is a triumph of subtlety and surprise.
Reviews/Praise
"[A] clever new novel" —New York Times
"With her signature clipped and measured prose, National Book Award winner Tuck's new novel is elegant, raw , and powerful...Though compact enough to be read in one sitting, it's also magnificent enough to be reread and renewed."―Publishers Weekly, Starred Boxed Review
“In her signature crisp, exacting prose, Tuck's seventh novel haunts the territory of marital jealously with delicacy and finesse... the novel's quiet rooms, fragmented form, sensual descriptions of food, wine, and fabric, and, above all, its dreamy pace combine to lull the reader into a reverie from which the actual plot's sudden climax comes as a rude awakening. Masterfully detailed and elegant in all its parts.”―Kirkus Reviews