![]() The consequences of that observation drive the second half of the novel, where the point of view shifts into the third person and she becomes "the wife", "the hurt one". ![]() ![]() As her agent presciently advises her: "every marriage is jerry-rigged". I had thought loving two people so much would straighten it." But there are no serene uplands to be found except in dreaming. In one of the key short passages in Offill’s melancholy, eloquent novel, the narrator confides that "there is still such crookedness in my heart. She – as we are forced to keep calling her – might be a fictional case study in Scott Stossel’s brilliant book of diagnosis and self-laceration, My Age of Anxiety. ![]() This union and the birth of a loved daughter only increase her anxiety. ![]()
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