A doctor's wife makes the devastating find of a condom wrapper in her husband's car. Driving down a back road, stunned, her mind lost in a convoluted maze, she hits and kills a woman bicycling on the side of the road. It's the beginning of the unraveling.

As she destroys her husband's car and watches him pack and leave, she's lost in her life. In the death she caused. Compelled to learn more about the woman she killed, she watches the dead woman's husband from afar. Watches as his world, too, crumbles and he becomes thinner, frailer, more chaotic. Gradually, she enters his life, reaching out to him.

This is the kind of book that makes you question what you are capable of. Driving away from a dead woman on a lonely country road? Losing yourself in the horror of your life? Ms. Joss digs into the human psyche, stimulating the uncomfortable and prickly parts of us that are disguised under the veneer of civility we wear. Her lyrical and intense writing style pulls you in and simply won't let go.