The Honey Wall A Novel [Paperback]

Nina and Tony are twenty years into a turbulent marriage-like relationship. Her world is centered at home in rural Pennsylvania: she builds intricate kinetic toys, her solitude both solace and confinement. He is a painter, in New York much of the time. Bill, the ailing caretaker of a nearby farm, a virtual stranger to Nina, tells her the story of his affair with his brother's wife forty years before. In intertwining narratives, we see how Bill's troubled life unfolded, and how his story comes to obsess Nina, triggering her own memories: of fiery years with Tony, of their infidelities and ineluctable passion for each other, and of her struggle with the boundaries of the relationshipreal and imagined.Redolent with apprehension and sudden longing....The deeper values of the book lie in the challenges that face all the characters and ourselves: are passion and honestyabout love, about the worldfinally incompatible?Gracefully intertwining two love stories, of a man and a woman from vastly different worlds, Karen Latuchie reveals how passion compounded by pride will lead us astray. With a candor that is rigorous yet tender, she has crafted a wise and heartbreaking novel.An erotically charged debutwith a psychological acumen reminiscent of Paula Foxabout the complications of intimacy and infidelity.