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9780062969651

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Family Drama

Monogamy

By Sue Miller

If this is not Sue Miller’s best novel, it is surely among her very best. One measure of that is how the experience of it deepens with each reading.

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Review of ‘Monogamy’

Any story told quickly, without the chill or warmth of accumulated details, becomes a cliche. For example: After 30 or so years of a relatively happy marriage, a woman wakes to find her husband dead beside her. Her grief is nearly unbearable until, at his memorial, she discovers he had been having an affair. She becomes…

Interview with Sue Miller

Sue Miller and I spoke back in 2003, just before the publication of her memoir, The Story of My Father. The experience of writing that book, she tells me, was the wellspring of Monogamy. “As I wrote that book about my father, I came slowly to understand him differently and to understand myself differently.”

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