Melki's Reviews > Wellness

Every couple has a story they tell themselves about themselves, a story that hums beneath them as a kind of engine, motoring them through trouble and into the future.

Welcome to Scenes from a Marriage of a couple who may or may not be consciously uncoupling.

Nasty words have been exchanged . . . the kind of words you can't take back:

"You thought if you married a rich girl, it meant you weren't the country bumpkin you're so afraid you really are."

"Okay, and you thought if you married an artist, it meant you weren't the heartless rock you're so afraid you really are."

Hill is careful to present both sides equally, though you may end up preferring one partner over the other. From their awful childhoods - Elizabeth's viciously competitive father, and the heartbreaking image of young Jack playing D&D all by himself, to their problems raising their young son - we get to see it all unravel.

Hill's book is damned near perfect in both the writing and the observations of human behavior.



Many thanks to NetGalley and Knopf for the read.