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Jodi and Todd, a psychologist and builder, seem like the proverbial happily married couple. Their lives are highly ordered and have no lack, except for the children Todd wants and Jodi cannot give him. Still they stay together and really do love each other deeply. This is the story of their unraveling marriage but not told in the stereotypical way so frequently found in other fiction. The control Jodi and Todd exert in their lives harbors anxiety, denial, rage, and so many repressed memories that are about to surface!
First we learn of Todd's extra-marital activities which he sees as absolutely harmless. But that's about to change when he dates the daughter of a good friend and that young woman becomes pregnant. That is what at first horrifies him and then serves as the impetus for his leaving Jodi and making plans to wed Natasha. At first Jodi handles it with equanimity but little by little she starts remembering more of her own past therapy, her own family memories, her own repressed, ultra-state of denial. Many more secrets lie in these pages, exposed like an onion being peeled and yielding a stinging, teary, piercing affect!
Todd also begins remembering more, especially when he undergoes quite a fright over something he never deemed possible and Natasha's tender love turns into nagging and harshness. She even wants to be friends with Jodi, which is one of the most incredible moments in the novel. Todd seems to think he can stay friends with Jodi even though he has his lawyer give her thirty days to leave their former home.
On and on it goes, a study in what really drives people to violence and revenge. But it's done with such graceful, gradual subtlety that the reader knows what's coming and yet is crept forward toward the shocking end inch by inch by inch!
Jodi is about to become an amazing woman, in more ways than one for sure! The Silent Wife: A Novel is a superb crime or psychological thriller crafted by someone who truly knows her topic and can write a stunning plot as well! Superb writing and consequently reading!


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The Silent Wife A Novel A S A Harrison Books Reviews

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I read this for a book club and I had to gut it out. I didn't like or connect to any of the 3 main characters. The writing was unnecessarily wordy and I found myself skipping big chunks.

He was a serial cheater who knocked up a young girl he knew since she was born. She knew it and was a pathetic doormat who looked pretty and cooked him dinner every night after he banged other women...and she was a therapist too...eeeesh. So the story is about a doormat, an overbearing knocked up young girl and a pathetic week philanderer who gets caught by younger vjj and then gets whacked....the end. Don't waste your time.
I was recommended to this by after enjoying Gone Girl, Jodi Picoult, and Liane Moriarty. But with some reviews that were less than enthusiastic, I held off. I read a couple more books with more of the same themes and after each the recommendations keep coming to this book. The kindle version was only a few bucks so I decided to bite the bullet. I hated all the characters and thought the woman was cold and unrelatable while the man was just ridiculous. I skimmed through more than half of it as the writing did not capture my attention.
I really didn't like this book. I found that I was totally bored through most of it, for being marketed as a thriller, I wasn't thrilled at all! I hated all of the characters, and there weren't any twist or turns that took me by surprise. I also didn't like the writing. There was so much explanation of everything the characters were doing, but they characters never said very much. It was monotonous and unnecessary. It partly explains why I was so bored throughout the book. I also hated the ending. I felt like it was there to make sense of why the characters acted the way they did, but it didn't. At least not for me. I still hated them all.
This odd story can't be characterized as a modern (2013) novel. The premise that a well-educated moderately affluent woman in Chicago with affluent well-educated married/divorced friends has no money and doesn't know that living w/a man without marriage for 20 years gives her absolutely no legal status as his wife is absurd. This is especially true given that it was written when gay marriage cases were racing to the Supreme Court and all consequences and lack of benefits of being together without marriage was at the forefront of news. Even Joy Behar, the aging flower child host of The View, dashed to the altar in 2011 after 25 years of living together when learning through estate planning that there is a difference between being married and not. Jodi - "Her" - is content to work part time from home and live well, shopping, cooking, and overlooking "His" other women as though she was a 1950s housewife or a modern woman who has come to a financial arrangement with Him. The fact that in 20 years neither raised the issue of money nor marriage after their youthful moving in together is completely unrealistic.

What made me slightly sick is that the roots of Her silence is incestuous child sexual abuse at the hands of her older brother. She learns to loll into acceptance at the age of six and carries that into her adult sex life. "He" remarks how she immediately becomes "slack" with glazed eyes before/during sex at the of 45ish. Queasy-making. That is an image I can't unread. Must every story be about childhood sex abuse? Piling on, the brother moves on to the younger brother.

The story is not Her/Him, but of their parents' marriages. Each - despite deliberate actions to avoid doing so - becomes their parents. Her - silent and seething; Him - an abusive alcoholic hiding from everyone. The unraveling which reads as though it's taking years, the author reminds us is only a matter of weeks - shown through the stages of a first trimester pregnancy. Ironically, it's not Her to whom He is physically abusive; it's the young student who is deliberately pregnant w/His child that he rages and hits as He is dragged toward the altar.

Unfortunately, only one of this vile cast is murdered.
Jodi and Todd, a psychologist and builder, seem like the proverbial happily married couple. Their lives are highly ordered and have no lack, except for the children Todd wants and Jodi cannot give him. Still they stay together and really do love each other deeply. This is the story of their unraveling marriage but not told in the stereotypical way so frequently found in other fiction. The control Jodi and Todd exert in their lives harbors anxiety, denial, rage, and so many repressed memories that are about to surface!
First we learn of Todd's extra-marital activities which he sees as absolutely harmless. But that's about to change when he dates the daughter of a good friend and that young woman becomes pregnant. That is what at first horrifies him and then serves as the impetus for his leaving Jodi and making plans to wed Natasha. At first Jodi handles it with equanimity but little by little she starts remembering more of her own past therapy, her own family memories, her own repressed, ultra-state of denial. Many more secrets lie in these pages, exposed like an onion being peeled and yielding a stinging, teary, piercing affect!
Todd also begins remembering more, especially when he undergoes quite a fright over something he never deemed possible and Natasha's tender love turns into nagging and harshness. She even wants to be friends with Jodi, which is one of the most incredible moments in the novel. Todd seems to think he can stay friends with Jodi even though he has his lawyer give her thirty days to leave their former home.
On and on it goes, a study in what really drives people to violence and revenge. But it's done with such graceful, gradual subtlety that the reader knows what's coming and yet is crept forward toward the shocking end inch by inch by inch!
Jodi is about to become an amazing woman, in more ways than one for sure! The Silent Wife A Novel is a superb crime or psychological thriller crafted by someone who truly knows her topic and can write a stunning plot as well! Superb writing and consequently reading!