The Summer Without Men - Siri Hustvedt

Out of the blue Mia's husband of thirty years asks her for a pause in their marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman. Mia cracks up first, then decamps for the summer to the town of her childhood, where little by little, she is drawn into the lives of those around her. Provocative, mordant, and fiercely intelligent, THE SUMMER WITHOUT MEN is a gloriously vivacious tragi-comedy about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old war between the sexes - a novel for our times by the internationally bestselling author Sir Hustvedt.