Contents

Part I

Chapter One

My name is Sarah Price, and I’m married to a…

Chapter Two

I think we’re very confused, Americans, about the whole idea…

Chapter Three

Before Nathan’s confession, my primary concern about the wedding, besides…

Chapter Four

I woke alone. I had a hangover, which made me…

Chapter Five

I knew my husband. I was confident of that. No…

Chapter Six

Why’d you do that? That’s what we asked Mattie when…

Chapter Seven

“Are you sure you want me to go?” Nathan asked,…

Chapter Eight

Kate Ryan. An unremarkable name, one that brought up 2,530,000…

 

Part II

Chapter Nine

The morning after Nathan left, Mattie woke at six, an…

Chapter Ten

Nothing lasts, so the poet says, and what can we…

Chapter Eleven

In the morning, after I called every hotel and hospital…

Chapter Twelve

I put the kids to bed at six o’clock—one of…

Chapter Thirteen

I meant to go to work on Monday. I really…

Chapter Fourteen

Thursday as I pulled up to the house Nathan was…

 

Part III

Chapter Fifteen

Mattie wanted to stop. She wanted to go home. She…

Chapter Sixteen

Helen had cut her hair. The last time I’d seen…

Chapter Seventeen

In the morning Helen found me on the couch with…

Chapter Eighteen

It had been so long since I’d lived outside the…

Chapter Nineteen

“Maybe,” I said to Mattie, “I’ll write a villanelle.”

Chapter Twenty

There are distinct categories of what a person will do…

Chapter Twenty-One

In the morning I woke alone. No Nathan, no kids.

Chapter Twenty-Two

Nine days since his wife’s car had disappeared around the…

Chapter Twenty-Three

We packed up our things, searching under beds and couch…

 

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Other Books by Leah Stewart

Credits

About the Publisher