num_pages: 380
description: For fans of Helen Fieldings Bridget Joness Diary and Allison Pearsons I Dont Know How She Does It comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.Maybe it was those extra five pounds Id gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other. But when the anonymous online study called Marriage in the 21st Century showed up in my inbox I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasnt long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22) and a caseworker (Researcher 101). And just like that I found myself answering questions. 7. Sometimes I tell him hes snoring when hes not snoring so hell sleep in the guest room and I can have the bed all to myself.61. Chet Baker on the tape player. He was cutting peppers for the salad. I looked at those hands and thought I am going to have this mans children.67. To not want what you dont have. What you cant have. What you shouldnt have.32. That if we werent careful it was possible to forget one another. Before the study my life was an endless blur of school lunches and doctors appointments family dinners budgets and trying to discern the fastest-moving line at the grocery store. I was Alice spouse of William and mother to Zoe and Peter drama teacher and Facebook chatter downloader of memories and Googler of solutions. But these days Im also Wife 22. And somehow my anonymous correspondence with Researcher 101 has taken an unexpectedly personal turn. Soon Ill have to make a decisionone that will affect my family my marriage my whole life. But at the moment Im too busy answering questions. As it turns out confession can be a very powerful aphrodisiac.
language: English
title: Wife 22
publisher: Ballantine Books