The Wife's Tale is the new book by Lori Lansens, author of The Girls. I loved The Girls. It was such a compelling, well written story. So I was a little disappointed by The Wife's Tale.
It is the story of Mary Gooch, an obese wife in Canada whose husband leaves her on the eve of their 25th wedding anniversary. She finds courage she didn't know she had, and boards a plane for the first time in her life to California to look for him. The series of people she meets and her tranformation along the way is the slow journey of this book. I understood that this story was about Mary's personal journey, but I found the ending dissapointing and anti-climactic.
I still think Lansens is a good writer and would check out her next book, but I found this one was a bit underwhelming.
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