The Senator's Wife

by Sue Miller

NATIONAL BESTELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of Monogomy brings us a "tasteful, elegant, sensuous" (The Boston Globe) novel about marriage and forgiveness.

Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation. Delia—wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton—is Meri's new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Tom's chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong.

Soon Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, as they both reckon with the contours and mysteries of marriage: one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun. With precision and a rich vitality, Sue Miller—beloved and bestselling author of While I Was Gone—brings us a highly charged, superlative novel.

• ISBN10: 0307276694
• ISBN13: 9780307276698
• Publish Date: 6 January 2009 (first published 1 January 2008)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Random House Inc
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 320
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780307276698

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

I suppose somewhere in the world, people talk like this, think like this, and act like this. I’m glad it seems foreign to me. The writing tics began to grate on my nerves around page 50, like the way synonyms are repeated to make a phrase seem profound, or how every fifth word of dialogue is italicized. “When everything is profound, darling, nothing is.” — Me, probably, if I showed up in this book.

Overall: it wasn’t bad (see, there I go again), but I’m in the mood for a lot more mayhem right now.