The Pilot's Wife

Anita Shreve 1998

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
grief betrayal marriage loss

Our Take

Kathryn learns her husband's plane went down, then learns the rest — slowly, publicly, in the worst possible order. Shreve understands that grief and betrayal are not separate experiences when they arrive together. The investigation into the crash is an investigation into a marriage you thought you understood.

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