A New York Times Notable Book - NPR Best Book of the Year - People magazine Top Ten Books of
the Year - BookPage Best Book of the Year - Good Housekeeping Best Book of the YearA sensual
and perceptive novel. . . . With humor and humanity Miller resists the simple scorned-wife
story and instead crafts a revelatory tale of the complexities-and the absurdities-of love
infidelity and grief. -O the Oprah MagazineA brilliantly insightful novel engrossing and
haunting about marriage love family happiness and sorrow from New York Times bestselling
author Sue Miller.Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. Their seemingly
effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances. By all
appearances they are a golden couple.Graham is a bookseller a big gregarious man with large
appetites-curious eager to please a lover of life and the convivial host of frequent lively
parties at his and Annie's comfortable house in Cambridge. Annie more reserved and
introspective is a photographer. She is about to have her first gallery show after a six-year
lull and is worried that the best years of her career may be behind her. They have two adult
children Lucas Graham's son with his first wife Frieda works in New York. Annie and
Graham's daughter Sarah lives in San Francisco. Though Frieda is an integral part of this
far-flung loving family Annie feels confident in the knowledge that she is Graham's last and
greatest love.When Graham suddenly dies-this man whose enormous presence has seemed to dominate
their lives together-Annie is lost. What is the point of going on she wonders without
him?Then while she is still mourning Graham intensely she discovers a ruinous secret one
that will spiral her into darkness and force her to question whether she ever truly knew the
man who loved her.
