This is strange, and interesting, but in between is some writing about marriage, love, fidelity, Europe, and saving the earth that is as funny and as grown-up as anything I’ve read in years. -Keith Gessen
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Average Rating:
3.3 rating based on 4,396 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0989760715
ISBN-13: 9780989760713
Goodreads: 22237292
Author(s): Publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project
Published: 10/1/2014
Nell Zink’s debut novel follows a downwardly mobile secretary from Philadelphia who marries an ambitious soon-to-be-expat pharmaceutical researcher in hopes that she will never work again. They end up in Germany, where it turns out that her new husband is tougher, sneakier, more sincere, more contradictory, and smarter than she is; she’d naturally thought it was impossible. Life becomes complicated with affairs, birding, and eco-terrorism. Bad things happen, yet they stagger through, clinging to each other from a safe distance.
3.3 rating based on 4,396 ratings (all editions)
ISBN-10: 0989760715
ISBN-13: 9780989760713
Goodreads: 22237292
Author(s): Publisher: Dorothy, a publishing project
Published: 10/1/2014
Nell Zink’s debut novel follows a downwardly mobile secretary from Philadelphia who marries an ambitious soon-to-be-expat pharmaceutical researcher in hopes that she will never work again. They end up in Germany, where it turns out that her new husband is tougher, sneakier, more sincere, more contradictory, and smarter than she is; she’d naturally thought it was impossible. Life becomes complicated with affairs, birding, and eco-terrorism. Bad things happen, yet they stagger through, clinging to each other from a safe distance.
