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.
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.
She essentially takes over as his unpaid assistant, and her life is filled with"a thousand tasks," including teaching him how to open and sort mail into four piles -- shred, trash, file, action items. Jane acknowledges that she's"a control freak, a neat freak, a crazy person,” and that her constant disappointment in John must have been hard on him. For her part, she finds her husband's disdain and lack of attention and respect soul-sapping.
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