First published 2014
It's the late 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Merriwether, a learned, cautious Harvard professor, hardly notices the long-haired hippies around him. But when his wife goes on vacation, Merriwether falls into a passionate affair with a summer student, Cynthia. Their forbidden love quickly turns possessive and destructive, threatening to tear apart Merriwether's carefully ordered life. This elegant, unnerving novel lays bare the cold, disordered heart of a love that defies all reason.
Genres: literary-fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, contemporary, adult-fiction, academia
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: forbidden-love, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Period: Late 1960s
245 pages · ebook · Open Road Media
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content