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The Ten Year Affair: A Novel

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This witty novel explores the alternate outcomes that emerge when two young parents spark a connection. In one timeline, they begin an affair, in the other they return to their lives. The Ten Year Affair indulges in all of the "what if" and "will they won't they" moments of life.

“The best book about adultery since Madame Bovary.” —Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection

“Intoxicating.” —The New Yorker

A New Yorker, NPR, ELLE, and Esquire Best Book of the Year

A hilariously acerbic sliding doors novel about a chance meeting between two young parents, both happily married (just not to each other) that sparks a will-they-won’t-they romance.

When Cora meets Sam at a baby group in their small town, the chemistry between them is undeniable. Both are happily married young...

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