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The Half Life: A Novel

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One woman’s perfect marriage begins to come undone when she realizes the cost of the American military presence on the pristine Italian island where her husband is stationed.

From the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever and The House Is on Fire, a novel set on a remote Italian island about a navy wife’s reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic Age.

“A captivating, whip-smart novel about love, loyalty, and a woman torn between two lives. I utterly adored it.” —Clare Leslie Hall, New York Times bestselling author of Broken Country

When twenty-three-year-old Eileen O’Malley meets charismatic naval officer Paul Archer in a Charles...