The Other Wife

'Extraordinary. A story about belonging in liminal spaces, and longing for things seemingly just out of reach. A searing, beautiful book.' Kiley Reid, author of Such a Fun Age Susan Zuzu Braeburn is almost forty. She has the life shes always dreamed of a beautiful house, a child, a successful partner. But something between her and her wife has been off for a long time, and she cant help but wonder if shes chosen wrong at every turn. Choosing to live with her white mother over her Black father after their divorce, choosing to become a lawyer rather than an artist and, most importantly, choosing to marry Agnes despite her unrequited feelings for her male best friend Cash. When an unexpected loss takes her back to her hometown, over a single wintery weekend, the what-ifs in her mind become too loud to ignore. Zuzu grapples with the knowledge that she doesnt have infinite time to make changes in her life, and that sometimes its too late to go back. A bold and bracing debut about race and class, love, nostalgia and mid-life reckoning . . . this is the moment at which we have to learn to live with the life weve chosen.