Read by Anna Stone. A spellbinding novel about the fragility of a young marriage, from Anita Shreve, one of our great chroniclers of the mysteries of the human heart. Margaret & Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will be a great adventure
- a year living in Kenya. While Patrick practices equatorial medicine, Margaret works as a photojournalist. Shuttling between tony expatriate suburbs & squalid shantytowns, Margaret quickly realizes there is a great deal she doesn't know about the complex mores of her new home, & about her own husb&. A British couple invites the newlyweds to join them on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, & they eagerly agree. But during their harrowing ascent, the unthinkable happens. In a reckless moment, a horrific accident occurs, & a life is claimed. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Margaret struggles to understand what happened on the mountain & how these events have transformed her & her marriage, perhaps forever.