Mrs. March

Holy moly, this is quite a novel! It's like watching a train wreck; you can’t stop it, you know it's going to be awful, yet you can’t look away. Mrs. March, as she is called throughout, is “in her head” once she hears that her well-known author husband, whose work she never bothers to read, has based a character in his latest book on her. The trouble is that character is a “whore,” as Mrs. March can only whisper to herself. All of the childhood trauma that she’s managed to bury is brought back to the surface by this trigger, upending her sheltered, privileged, structured New York City life. To watch her devolve is disturbing, yet strangely fascinating. This is an amazing character study. —Cindy (from the Madison Books newsletter)