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Mariner Books
June 2016
On Sale: June 14, 2016
Featuring: Althea; Clem
ISBN: 0544263685
EAN: 9780544263680
Kindle: B011H55KLU
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Literature and Fiction | Fiction
For most of their marriage, Althea has fluctuated between
extreme depressive and manic states — what she calls “the
Tombs” and “the Visions” — and Oliver has been the steady
hand that guided her to safety. This summer, Althea decides
that she will be different from here on. She will be the
loving, sexy wife Oliver wants, and the reliable,
affectionate mother their nine year-old daughter Clem
deserves. Her plan: to bring Clem to their Easthampton home
once school is out — with no “summer girl” to care for her
this time — and become “normal.”
But Oliver is distant and controlling, and his relationship
with their interior decorator seems a bit too close; Clem
has learned to be self-sufficient, and getting to know her
now feels like very hard work for Althea. Into this scene
enters the much younger, David Foster Wallace–reading house
painter, who reaches something in Althea that has been long
buried.
Fearless, darkly funny, and compulsively readable, If You
Left explores the complex dance that is the bipolar
marriage, and the possibility that to move forward, we might
have to destroy the very things we've worked hardest to build.
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