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They were going through what they had privately acknowledged to friends and family as a rough patch. They had been together for four years, married for two, living in the apartment for one, and driving each other crazy for eight straight months.

[...] They were young, still in their early twenties. They had decades to figure it out. She wanted to edit books. To have an office with floor to ceiling bookcases, a vase of fresh flowers near a wall of thank-you notes from famous authors. She wanted conversations at restaurants that made her blo…

He knew nothing, Ben, but he couldn't help it. He had known no heartache, had excelled in school, gone straight to medical school. He knew work and reward, work and reward, nothing complicated, nothing tragic. A piece of her floated away from him that night, or had been floating for a while, but sh…

The money helped. She signed a lease on an apartment in Harlem with two friends and once there, spent the summer applying for internships and entry-level jobs. She bought some cute interview clothes, shoes made of supple leather that molded to her feet. She procured a summer internship with a liter…

[...] That turn really did take place between Strong Motion and The Corrections. There was plenty of domestic stuff in the first two books, but the idea that the [domestic] dramas could carry the main weight of the story was a liberating discovery. I did not have to resort to elaborate superstr…