Other Wife

"e;My name is Mika Calloway. I'm married to Cole Hartley. I think you and I have a problem."e;Dianne Vasquez is good at knowing what a room needs. She has spent six years perfecting a marriage, a career, and a dinner party—the kind of woman who stirs risotto twenty-three times and keeps notes on what she changed. She has always believed that love is a choice you make fully and without reservation. What she doesn't know is that her husband has been making choices of his own.Mika Calloway notices everything. She always has. It's the way her mind works—filing, cataloguing, organizing the evidence of a life into neat categories. So when her husband's phone turns face-down on the counter one Sunday morning and the silence after a text sounds different from the silence before it, she files that too. Four days later, she has a name, a firm, and an address. She has also made a decision that will change two lives she has never touched.When Mika walks into Dianne's studio on a Tuesday afternoon with evidence no one asked for and news no one wants, what begins as an act of devastating honesty slowly becomes something neither woman expected: a friendship forged in wreckage, built incrementally in coffee shops and kitchens and late-night phone calls, one small accumulated thing at a time.The Other Wife is a literary women's fiction novel about what happens after the worst year of your life—and the people who arrive in it, sideways, through exactly the crisis you wouldn't have chosen. It is a story about two women who thought they knew the shape of their lives, and the slow, surprising process of finding out they were wrong, and that being wrong was the beginning of something real.