Review: "Luck is arbitrary.  Good fortune you can cultivate."
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 16, 2013
Decisions can come in a haze of hope.  The arc of a marriage encloses a composite events and emotion, yet its demise may happen in a minute of longing.  The narrator has separated from her husband and has joined her lover for a weekend at the home of his best friend.  There she is entranced by the couple and their guests and the "braid" of their perfect life.  Surrounded by the perfect couples, her mind slips into the world before her.  Years past and she sees the unmaking if the braid and the ultimate fragility of that which she has chosen.  Having all of us longed for the glimpse of the ideal marriage, this book personifies the way we dream our dreams.