Welcome to Litsy!

I'm struggling to find words to express my feelings about this quietly devastating novel. It's about love and how much we can know another no matter how much we love them, it's about the consequences of war for those who do not serve, it's about US society in the 1950's. It's left me with a lot to think about. #BookspinBingo

Yesterday I picked this up and did not stop until it was finished. The title suggests an intimate portrayal of a marriage, and it delivered. The twists were delightful + haunting; reminders that even in the happiest of marriages, ones we are proud of and work hard for, there are (or were) dark spells of doubt. We only know people when they are right in front of us, we see only the parts they show us and share with us. Everything else is imagined.