The Most

"Jessica Anthony serves an ace with this tightly constructed novel, a portrait of a marriage at its breakpoint that highlights the trade-offs people make in life. The Most spans a single, unseasonably warm November day in 1957, during which the wife, a former intercollegiate tennis champion, slips into her apartment complex’s kidney-shaped pool and refuses to get out. To break through the marital impasse with her husband, she deploys a cunning tennis strategy from which the novel takes its title."