Wifehouse

"e;Je suis femme maison."e;"e;You are a wifehouse? Oh, a housewife. Je suis une femme au foyer."e;"e;Wow, that actually sounds worse in French. Let's go with je suis mere."e;He is drenched in youth, this young man, she thinks. He is soaked in all its possibilities.Following years of a life lived as a wife and mother, Annie is gifted French lessons with twenty-six-year-old local French tutor, Thierry. As time passes and the lessons progress, she finds herself unexpectedly vulnerable to the charms of a man closer in age to her teenage daughter than to her own. A new life for Annie emerges, one she could never have foreseen . . . Told over the course of one year through the shifting perspectives of wife, husband, lover, best friend and children, Walger paints a contradictory, nuanced portrait of a woman who walks away from every role that tradition and society have expected of her.