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The Wife's Tale

By: Lori Lansens
Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
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On the eve of her wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband to come home, listening for his car along the dark, icy roads. As the night draws on, and he fails to appear, Mary reflects on the true nature of their marriage: the secrets, the silences, and the unmentionable yet inescapable fact that for each loss and disappointment, there has been a corresponding physical gain: the woman she once is now imprisoned in mountainous flesh.

THE WIFE'S TALE is the inspirational story of the journey Mary is finally forced to make across a continent, ostensibly in search of her husband, but eventually towards the self she has buried for too long.

©2009 LLMT, Inc. (P)2010 Isis Publishing Ltd Contemporary Fiction Fiction Genre Fiction Marriage
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