The Astral by Kate Christensen

From Kate Christensen, the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of 'The Great Man', a scintillating novel of love, loss, and literary rivalry set in rapidly changing Brooklyn. "Christensen takes a singular, genuine story and blows it up into a smart inquiry into the nature of love and the commitments we make, the promises we do and do not honor, and the people we become as we negotiate the treacherous parameters of marriage and friendship and parenthood." —Publishers Weekly Starred 'Pick of the Week' Review