Gone Girl: A Novel

The exhausted wife has also spent years struggling against her husband’s lack of connection, his constant suspicion, failure to follow through, and heaps of broken promises. She has endured years or even decades of her husband promising to change. She trusts him every time, and he lets her down over and over. Broken and alone, she believes she has

Gus walked away. I continued to watch him, wondering what he was feeling, who he was going to call first to say that we had run into each other. Gus and I worked until we didn’t. When you get into a relationship, you both implicitly sign this contract that says “I’m going to be this person for you and you’re going to be this person for me and that’

The problem, she’s starting to understand, is that a man will never let you fall completely into hell. He will scoop you up right before you drop the final inch so that you cannot blame him for sending you there. He keeps you in a dinerlike purgatory instead, waiting and hoping and taking orders. He