First published 2017
The narrator arrives in Greece to handle the practicalities of her separation. Her husband, a writer, has disappeared somewhere in the country, leaving behind only uncertainty and unfinished business. She must navigate conversations with his friends, local authorities, and her own mother-in-law while maintaining the fiction that their marriage might still be salvageable. As she moves through unfamiliar landscapes and awkward social situations, the narrator confronts what she has lost and what she never truly had. The search for her missing spouse becomes a reckoning with the gaps that existed in their relationship long before his physical absence. Her clinical approach to the crisis reveals deeper questions about intimacy, commitment, and the stories we tell ourselves about love.
Genres: literary-fiction, domestic-fiction, contemporary, psychological-thriller, 21st-century, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: unreliable-narrator
Setting: Greece
Period: 21st-century
255 pages · Library Binding · Center Point Pub