Alison Reads

I inhaled this book over the Labor Day weekend. It’s a fascinating book (by a woman, by the way) about a married woman who is tempted to kiss a man she meets one night. Alternating chapters cover the next five years of her life. In one reality she gives in to the kiss and leaves her husband for the other man. In another reality she resists temptation and stays with her husband, but always wonders what might have happened. The two lives that Irina, the main character, might experience are very different, but they both seem absolutely real. Every decision has long-reaching consequences, and no relationship is perfect. Highly recommended.