{"id":1851,"date":"2022-12-15T20:43:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T20:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2023-03-11T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T16:32:28","slug":"my-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=1851","title":{"rendered":"My Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since forever, French authors and screenwriters have been writing about heterosexual marriage and infidelity as though these were the only tales worth telling. They are not. But <em>My Husband <\/em>certainly does a smashing job of upending the traditional domestic narrative with one that is terrifically creepy, darkly obsessive, and uncomfortably humorous. The finely translated novel\u2014a fast read, if there ever was one\u2014is told from the wife\u2019s perspective, a woman who\u2019s entire being is centered on pleasing\/controlling her husband. At one point, she describes herself as co-dependent, but that\u2019s like saying the Pope is Catholic. A beautiful woman with a great wardrobe and a lovely apartment in the Paris suburbs, she pretty much ignores her two young children (\u201cToday, I think I can say with certainty that I could survive the death of one of my children, but not of my husband.\u201d)\u00a0 The perfect life? Restricted to her home with her husband, \u201cendless one-on-one time\u2026Sometimes I picture myself alone on the Earth with him.\u201d Got the picture? But the husband isn\u2019t perfect; sometimes when they are sitting on the sofa, watching TV, he\u2019ll be the first to stop holding hands. Infractions like these deserve punishment, usually moving or hiding his personal belongings. <strong>It\u2019s mesmerizing, and try as one might, you can\u2019t look away.<\/strong> <strong>As the book progresses, the reader\u2019s anxiety mounts, until we reach an ending which is quite the tailspin. Hip reading groups will tear each other apart over this book.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since forever, French authors and screenwriters have been writing about heterosexual marriage and infidelity as though these were the only tales worth telling. They are not. But My Husband certainly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,84],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-family-life","tag-marriage-divorce"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/My-Hubby-2-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/My-Hubby-2.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}