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Harper
May 2010
On Sale: May 5, 2010
Featuring: Rajiv; Nathan; Sarah Price
352 pages
ISBN: 0061774502
EAN: 9780061774508
Hardcover
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Women's Fiction
In this new novel by the celebrated author of The Myth
of You and Me, a young mother discovers that her husband's
novel about infidelity might be drawn from real life. Sarah Price is thirty-five years old. She doesn't feel as
though she's getting older, but there are some noticeable
changes: a hangover after two beers, the stray gray hair,
and, most of all, she's called “Mom” by two small children.
Always responsible, Sarah traded her MFA for a steady job,
which allows her husband, Nathan, to write fiction. But
Sarah is happy and she believes Nathan is too, until a truth
is revealed: Nathan's upcoming novel, Infidelity, is based
in fact. Suddenly Sarah's world is turned upside down. Adding to her
confusion, Nathan abdicates responsibility for the fate of
their relationship and of his novel's publication—a
financial lifesaver they have been depending upon—leaving
both in Sarah's hands. Reeling from his betrayal, she is
plagued by dark questions. How well does she really know
Nathan? And, more important, how well does she know herself? For answers, Sarah looks back to her artistic
twenty-something self to try to understand what happened to
her dreams. When did it all seem to change? Pushed from her
complacent plateau, Sarah begins to act—for the first time
not so responsibly—on all the things she has let go of for
so long: her blank computer screen; her best friend, Helen;
the volumes of Proust on her bookshelf. And then there is
that e-mail in her inbox: a note from Rajiv, a beautiful man
from her past who once tempted her to stray. The struggle to
find which version of herself is the essential one—artist,
wife, or mother—takes Sarah hundreds of miles away from her
marriage on a surprising journey. Wise, funny, and sharply drawn, Leah Stewart's Husband and
Wife probes our deepest relationships, the promises we make
and break, and the consequences they hold for our lives,
revealing that it's never too late to step back and start over.
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