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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 meaning—“a modern-day Anna Karenina tale.”** Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her
Swiss husband, Bruno—a banker—and their three young children
in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich. 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 can’t easily
extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end
them, she finds it’s 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 Essbaum’s 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.
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