Monogamy

Sue Miller is the bestselling author of While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, Family Pictures, Inventing the Abbotts, and The Good Mother. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

"Monogamy is an old-fashioned, slow burn of a novel that allows readers to dream deeply. . . full of depth and contrast and lush detail." - Richard Russo, New York Times Book Review

"A well-woven book about sexual attraction, family dynamics and the mess they make together. . . . Everyone in this novel hungers for love and loyalty, but no one truly achieves it. And yet after myriad struggles and revelations, those with the most attentive, loving hearts find peace." - Minneapolis Star Tribune

"The shifting perspectives in the narrative . . . demonstrate how dependent truth is on what is shown to us. Sue Miller's skillfulness at doing so makes a familiar plot into an original story that reflects the real-life complexity of long relationships. Monogamy demonstrates that Miller remains one of the finest cartographers of the territory of marriage."
- Washington Post

"Miller is one of our most emotionally profound and nuanced writers. . . . The deeper I got into Monogamy, the more it made me think of James Joyce's 'The Dead,' about a man whose sense of his marriage is radically changed by one fateful moment. Both narratives end on a snow-silenced night haunted by ghosts - ghosts who are out of reach, but still, maddeningly, messing with the living." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

"What makes a good marriage? . . . .The book's title isn't the full answer for the couple in this emotionally perceptive novel. . . . The key to a happy marriage, Miller's moving story suggests, lies in just this: two people opening themselves up to one another - like inviting books." - Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor