Five Women (2014)
“It was as if marriage to him, although it involved some inevitable compromises that she really didn’t mind, was a vacation from the pain and self-doubt she had lived with all of her life before he came along. The years were a kind of healing. When she passed the magic cutoff year her gynecologist had warned her about, Gara realized that unless she now made a great effort to get pregnant, which she did not want to do, she was probably unlikely ever to have a child of her own, and she felt much m...ore relieved than nostalgic.
Carl was a welcome barrier between her and her mother, and her father seemed to like him. She had been saved from ten years of dating. She felt as if she fit into a place where her parents finally accepted her—at least, as much as her mother was capable. She was a happily married woman with a flourishing career and two nice stepchildren. Cary and Eric were in prep school and college now; they were sixteen and eighteen, tall, well-built, healthy, good-looking boy-men.MoreLess
Carl was a welcome barrier between her and her mother, and her father seemed to like him. She had been saved from ten years of dating. She felt as if she fit into a place where her parents finally accepted her—at least, as much as her mother was capable. She was a happily married woman with a flourishing career and two nice stepchildren. Cary and Eric were in prep school and college now; they were sixteen and eighteen, tall, well-built, healthy, good-looking boy-men.MoreLess
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