Monogamy
By Sue Miller
- Release Date: 2020-09-08
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Description
A New York Times Notable Book • NPR Best Book of the Year • People magazine Top Ten Books of the Year • BookPage Best Book of the Year • Good Housekeeping Best Book of the Year
“A sensual and perceptive novel. . . . With humor and humanity, Miller resists the simple scorned-wife story and instead crafts a revelatory tale of the complexities—and the absurdities—of love, infidelity, and grief.” —O, the Oprah Magazine
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. Their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances. By all appearances, they are a golden couple.
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 Annie’s 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, Graham’s son with his first wife, Frieda, works in New York. Annie and Graham’s 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 Graham’s 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 Graham intensely, she discovers a ruinous secret, one that will spiral her into darkness and force her to question whether she ever truly knew the man who loved her.
Reviews
Beautiful book
5By good-lovinsLike all beautiful books, i fell in love with the characters, this whole family, and was so sad to leave them when i was done.Really?
3By 4488662Does it get anymore boring than a story about some fat sociopath. I mean just get over it folks. He died, shrug, move on. How is it even possible that this story won awards? Get a life and see how the real world deals with life events. This is so off base with its weak, weepy characters. Just so boring! .All the thoughts, all the realizations…
4By MeridaGabySue brings us into the complexity of a marriage and the lives of a community centered around a larger than life book store owner and literature lover.Monogamy
2By Perky tooI understand this book got great reviews and I have enjoyed Sue Miller’s other best sellers....however, I feel compelled to agree with the previous reviewer. It did drag. I wanted to like these characters and half the time I did but I could have done with much less useless chitchat and endless descriptions that were repetitive and unnecessary to the story. I liked parts that took place in the book store...it felt real but after a while I was skipping long passages. Sorry, Sue. This was a bore.Should be called Monotony
2By Miss ThinkerbellIt’s a boring read. Just drags and drags. None of the characters feel compelling.👎🏼
3By AZ Reading RNA hard read for me. Finished it only because I started it. It was... boring.