A Perfect Life Shattered

Sarah Glasser has always been a good girl, striving for perfection in her life with her financial advisor husband, Adam, and their two boys. A good mother: she volunteers at the school library. A good wife: she runs their household with precision. She even mails out Christmas cards to all her husband's clients.

When Adam comes home one night, hours late from a business meeting, drunk and agitated and asking for a divorce, Sarah is shaken and frightened by thoughts of an unknown life so altered from the one she has carefully cultivated. This incident sets the stage for all that follows: stormy arguments, Adam's binge-drinking, and his purposeful absences from family obligations and social gatherings—to Sarah's eventual, rebellious, slow-burn affair with Troy Middleton, the contractor renovating their Victorian house.

While the collapse of a marriage is a tried-and-true plot, the characters in An Unfinished Marriage are complex and relatable, with humor lightening the drama and propelling the novel forward. The layers of the story peel away to reveal familiar feelings of devotion, betrayal, selfishness, and the complicated love between women and men, parents and children, and friends who sometimes become enemies.