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First Published:
Jan 2012, 400 pages
Paperback:
Jan 2013, 432 pages
Bestselling author Kristin Hannah explores the intimate landscape of a troubled marriage with this provocative and timely portrait of a husband and wife, in love and at war.
Part One
From a Distance
There are some things you learn best in calm, some in storm. Willa Cather
Prologue
1982
The way she saw it, some families were like well-tended parks,
with pretty daffodil borders and big, sprawling trees that offered
respite from the summer sun. Others and this she knew
firsthand were battlefields, bloody and dark, littered with shrapnel
and body parts.
She might only be seventeen, but Jolene Larsen already knew about
war. She'd grown up in the midst of a marriage gone bad.
Valentine's Day was the worst. The mood at home was always precarious,
but on this day, when the television ran ads for flowers and chocolates
and red foil hearts, love became a weapon in her parents' careless
hands. It started with their drinking, of course. Always. Glasses full of
bourbon, refilled again and again. That was the beginning. Then came
the screaming and the crying, the throwing of things. For years, Jolene
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