A Trick of Nature A Novel [Paperback]

Like Ann Hood and Sue Miller, Suzanne Matson captures average people reevaluating their once comfortable domesticity as middle age slowly approaches. In delivering the Goodmans stumbling marriage,A compassionate psychological portrait of one familys slow unravelingA page-turner that sheds the facade of one familys seemingly perfect existence as the reader rushes to its end.[An] eloquent second novel&Describing the sustenance derived from family is Matsons metier, and she portrays it here in an especially tender, emotionally revealing way. She effortlessly shifts the narrative between Gregs point of view and Pattys, beautifully illuminating the inner lives of a family stubbornly held together by a persistent love.So skillfully does Matson describe the calm before the marital storm that its possible to be lulled right along with them into their own blind harmony. A compelling, unpredictable narrative that moves beyond its calm suburban setting into darker social and psychological territory&[Matson] is a writer of uncommon wisdom and emotional depth. Tom Perrotta