It starts enigmatic, full of the cleverness of Enright's sentences 'If it hadnt been for the child then none of this might have happened, but the fact that a child was involved made everything that much harder to forgive.' In this story we not only find the cheater/husband, the wronged wife, the always waiting mistress; we also have their children, giving this situation started by two a more complicated nature than such a trio.
In the beginning there is the mystery, the escapades, the danger of being caught. Later, the obsession, the hours waiting outside the other's house. In the beginning, the narrator even humorously claims 'all you have to do is sleep with somebody and get caught and you never have to see your in-laws again. Ever. Pfffft! Gone. It's the nearest thing to magic I ever found yet.'
Then, when they are discovered, they have to deal with their relatives' and friends' anger, disappointment, foolishness. The narrator says 'We're pariahs.'
What the narrator havent thought through is the relationship she must engage with her lover's daughter, a teenager full of anguish and predictable issues. Is there when Enright fully makes us understand how our impulses touch not only our lives but also those's surrounding us.
A clever analysis of how mature and responsible adults are suppossed to be. The development of an affair is dissectionated, making plain how humans are lead by their heart, not their brains.
Ana Ovejero
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