BookBrowse Reviews My Husband by Maud Ventura, Emma Ramadan

For couples who've chosen to spend their lives together, the passionate flames of new love tend to eventually cool into a sort of comfortable warmth. One's spouse becomes a beloved partner rather than an object of infatuation. Maud Ventura's provocative novel My Husband, translated from French by Emma Ramadan, explores what it's like when that doesn't happen.

Ventura's unnamed narrator, a forty-year-old English teacher and book translator (see Beyond the Book), is intensely obsessed with her husband of fifteen years. As the book opens, she frames this situation as still loving him as much as she did the day she met him. But as the plot progresses, the reader quickly discovers her obsession is deeper — and darker — than mere butterflies. Told over the course of one week in the couple's life, this story has all the tension of a domestic suspense novel with the biting wit of ...