Books like While I Was Gone
Jo Becker, a veterinarian in a small Massachusetts town married to a minister, is unsettled when Eli Mayhew, who shared a Cambridge house with her in the 1960s, turns up at her practice, bringing back the housemate who was murdered there.
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The Pilot's Wife
Kathryn Lyons is woken before dawn in her New Hampshire farmhouse by the news that her husband Jack's plane has gone down off the coast of Ireland, and as investigators suggest he caused the crash, she begins to find she did not know the man she married.
Rabbit, Run
Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, a former high-school basketball star now selling kitchen gadgets in a Pennsylvania town, walks out on his pregnant wife and young son one evening and keeps driving.
Dominicana
In 1965 Ana Canción, fifteen, is married off by her family to Juan Ruiz, a man twice her age, and taken from the Dominican countryside to an apartment in Washington Heights, so that the rest of them can follow.
The Paper Palace
At her family's ramshackle summer camp in the Cape Cod woods, Elle Bishop wakes after a night with Jonas, her oldest friend, while her husband Peter sleeps nearby, and over one day she weighs a choice shaped by fifty years of family history.
The Scarlet Letter
A woman in Puritan Massachusetts is condemned to wear a scarlet letter for adultery, and the punishment exposes the hypocrisy of the community that imposed it.
Enemies, A Love Story
In New York in 1949, Herman Broder, a Holocaust survivor married to the Polish servant who hid him, keeps a mistress in the Bronx, and then his first wife, believed dead, turns up alive.
The Spectator Bird
Joe Allston, a retired literary agent in California, reads aloud to his wife from the journal of a trip to Denmark they took twenty years before, and old secrets come back.
The River Is Waiting
Corby Ledbetter, laid off from his advertising job, is looking after his two-year-old twins while his wife teaches, and hiding an addiction to alcohol and pills, until a moment's carelessness at home ends in tragedy.
Little Children
In a Boston suburb, Sarah, an unhappy stay-at-home mother, and Todd, the handsome stay-at-home father the playground mothers call the Prom King, start an affair, while the town panics over a sex offender who has moved back in with his mother.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.
Songs in Ordinary Time
In the summer of 1960 in Atkinson, Vermont, Marie Fermoyle, divorced and raising three children on almost nothing, falls for Omar Duvall, a drifter with a sales pitch and a past.
Tirra Lirra by the River
Nora Porteous, in her seventies, comes home to the Brisbane house where she grew up after decades in Sydney and London, and remembers her life.