O My Darling, Paperback/Amity Gaige

The external lives of Clark, a high school guidance counselor, and Charlotte, a bookkeeper, are utterly ordinary, but their interior lives are as bold and complex as abstract paintings colored by imagined possibilities, childhood joys and, more darkly, by deeply buried fears. When Clark rescues a young boy from drowning, a chain of events -- some comic, some harrowing -- is set in motion, revealing the fault lines of the couple's marriage and individual psyches. Amity Gaige is a consummate stylist. Her every sentence contains a tiny world -- marrying striking images to deep, soulful ideas in perfectly concise fashion. About author(s): Amity Gaige is the author of Schroder and The Folded World . Her essays, articles, and stories have appeared in various publications, including the Yale Review , Los Angeles Times , O Magazine , The Literary Review , One Story and in a 2009 collection of essays, Feed Me (Random House). She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a McDowell Colony Fellowship, and a Baltic Writing Residency Fellowship, and is currently the Visiting Writer at Amherst College. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her family.