In her fierce second novel, Sarah Manguso writes a requiem for a failed relationship from the point of view of a survivor, the wife left behind.
"Elegies are the best love stories because they're the whole story," Sarah Manguso writes in her fierce second novel,Of course, there are always at least two sides to every story, and especially every marriage. But this requiem for a failed relationship is from the point of view of a survivor, the wife left behind. Elegiac is not a word I would use to describe it.
But she soon discovers John's hidden flaws. He lied to her about his relationship status. His writing was barely literate, and he was terrible with money. He sulked and undermined her when her career advanced and his didn't. "And yet," she writes,"no woman I knew was any better off, so I determined to carry on." She adds disturbingly,"After investing five years of my life, I didn't want to have to start over again."So, reader -- no surprise, and no spoiler alert necessary -- she not only marries him, but has a child with him. Which of course eats into her writing time.
Questions that haunt the narrator include: Why did she marry him? And why had she stayed with him so long? Is commitment a trap or a gift?
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