Same As It Ever Was: A Novel

But there is no happy medium in a marriage when one party wants to be alone and the other doesn’t. There is no way to have it both ways; someone always loses, and tonight, apparently, the loser is she.

Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart.

They are a family whose clock is always slightly askew, affections misplaced and offenses outsized.