The Ten Year Affair

"My fellow millennials, we’ve made it. We’re now old enough to be in long, unhappy marriages and to have our fiction reflect that. Hurray! As a consolation prize, Erin Somers’ take on the slog that marriage can sometimes be doesn’t feel like a mere throwback to the types of domestic dramas that used to be literary fiction’s bread and butter. Instead, the novel takes a multiverse approach to marriage and infidelity. (Our hero doesn’t really cheat — she just thinks about it a lot. But wait — isn’t that sorta, kinda cheating?) And as any superhero fan will tell you, multiverses have a tendency to … crash into each other in interesting ways."