The Daylight Marriage

The Daylight Marriage

<DIV><B>€œA page-turning exploration of unexpressed love and unnecessary loss. Riveting and heartbreaking.€ €"GERALDINE BROOKS, author of <I>Caleb€s Crossing</I></B><BR /><BR /> She still had time before work. She could go food shopping. She could fold the kids€ laundry and get the car washed and return some library books. Or Hannah could do something else. She could do something that she had never done--drive to a part of town where she had never been, pretend to be someone that she was not.<BR /><BR /> Hannah was tall and graceful, naturally pretty, spirited and impulsive, the upper-class young woman who picked, of all men, Lovell--the introverted climate scientist who thought he could change the world if he could just get everyone to listen to reason. After a magical honeymoon, they settled in the suburbs to raise their two children.<BR /><BR /> But over the years, Lovell and Hannah€s conversations have become charged with resentments and unspoken desires. She has become withdrawn. His work affords him a convenient distraction. And then, after one explosive argument, Hannah vanishes.<BR /><BR /> For the first time, Lovell is forced to examine the trajectory of his marriage through the lens of memory. As he tries to piece together what happened to his wife--and to their life together--readers follow Hannah on that single day when a hasty decision proves irrevocable.<BR /><BR /> With haunting intensity, a seamless balance of wit and heartbreak, and the emotional acuity that author Heidi Pitlor brings to every page, <I>The Daylight Marriage </I>mines the dark and delicate nature of a marriage.<BR /><BR /> €œIn <I>The Daylight Marriage,</I> there are two mysteries--the whereabouts of a missing woman and the vagaries of the human heart. Heidi Pitlor explores both of these enigmas with equal mastery, merging a shocking crime story with an incisive portrait of a failed marriage. The result is a novel that is fast-moving, emotionally complex, and ultimately heartbreaking.€ <B>€"Tom Perrotta, author of <I>Nine Inches</I></B><BR /><BR /> €œPitlor brings forth the emotions that surge beneath the surface with the precision and power of a conductor . . . This powerful analysis of how dreams become nightmares will make readers want to hold their loved ones close.€ <B>€"<I>Booklist,</I> starred review</B></DIV>