Welcome to Litsy!

A womans sexual awakening is a tragedy when the woman is married to someone other than the man who awakens her. But until then, her marriage, now doomed, was a sleepwalkers tragedy. This novel will shock and offend some readers. Unapologetically explicit in its language, extreme in some of the acts it catalogues, it makes no pretense of submission to middle-class decency, let alone to expectations of happy endings. All three people in this love triangle are flawed, damaged, human. Things fall apart, and the resolution is unclear. Why does she do it? Why should we read it? The answer is one word: Ecstasy. Micheline Aharonian Marcom has a genius for language that is not only beautiful in and of itself, but also engages the heart. Lusher than Marguerite Duras, more tender and erotic than Cormac McCarthy, but nearly as dark, this is a narrative masterpiece. "Marcoms prose is nothing short of gorgeous."-San Francisco Chronicle "The fierce beauty of her prose both confronts readers with many breathtaking cruelties and carries us past them." -Margot Livesey, The New York Times Book Review "Her writing is mellifluous, so poetically inflected at times as to lull the reader into a trance." -Publishers Weekly "Marcoms language is always fervent, whether gorgeous or foul." -Kirkus