The Ten Year "Affair"

The Ten Year Affair by Eron Somers is not for everyone-- as with many books that I like, the Goodreads reviews are split-- which I find a better indicator of something interesting than if the vast majority of people like the book . . . and this book was well-reviewed by actual literary reviewers, so fuck gate-keepers and all that, but sometimes they know what they're talking about . . . anyway, the novel is about a millenial couple who move to a suburban town in the Hudson Valley and have various millenial child-rearing problems and social interactions, and the narrator-- Cora-- is in a mainly sexless marriage witha depressed but very nice husband, begins to imagine an affair and splits her life into two timelines, very Sliding Doors, until it gets messier . . . the tone reminds me a bit of Halle Butler . . . but not quite as futile-- anyway, give it a shot, you'll know if you like it by page two.

7 comments:

  1. I liked Sliding Doors. Underrated film.

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  2. i remember it being pretty good . . .

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  3. the version I saw was pretty boring

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  4. Remember what the Monty Python boys always said…

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  5. always look on the bright side of life?

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  6. maybe we were watching versions from different timelines. the one i remember picked up when Arnold Schwarzenegger rescued gwyneth paltrow from the joker

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  7. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition

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