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"Over the course of one momentous day, two women who have built their lives around the same man find themselves moving toward an inevitable reckoning. Former Lutheran minister Henry Plageman is a master secret keeper and a man wracked by grief. He and his wife, Marilyn, tragically lost their young son, Jack, many years ago. But he now has another child--a daughter, eight-year-old Blue--with Lucy, the woman he fell in love with after his marriage collapsed.The Half Wives follows these interconnected characters on May 22, 1897, the anniversary of Jack's birth. Marilyn distracts herself with…
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3 editions- Paperback · English · 2018Mariner Books · 352 pages · 9781328915412
- Other · English · 2017Houghton Mifflin Harcourt · 327 pages · 9780547491165
- Other · English · 2017Half WivesHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 9780547519463
Family secretsLife change eventsParent and childFictionEx-clergyWivesFiction, biographicalSan francisco (calif.), fiction