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A 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. A golden couple their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances. Graham is a bookseller a big greA 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. A golden couple their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances. 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 Annies 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 Grahams son with his first wife Frieda works in New York. Annie and Grahams 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 Grahams 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 him intensely she discovers that Graham had been unfaithful to her; and she spirals into darkness wondering if she ever truly knew the man who loved her.(less)