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Random House
March 2015
On Sale: March 17, 2015
Featuring: Anna Benz
336 pages
ISBN: 0812997530
EAN: 9780812997538
Kindle: B00MKZE2QQ
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Anna was a good wife, mostly. For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaningββa modern-day Anna Karenina tale.β** Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Brunoβa bankerβand their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of ZΓΌrich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her.
But Anna canβt easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds itβs difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back. Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaumβs debut novel is an unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we make to find ourselves.
 Media BuzzWeekend Edition Saturday - March 21, 2015
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