Night the Bridges Rose

For nine seasons, Dr. Nina Gale told America how to save a marriage. First, do everything. Then you can leave. They printed it on mugs.At fifty-five, with a book about thirty happy years due to her publisher, Nina goes to Venice alone in November to write. She comes back with a secret.Her husband, Andrew, has one too. For two years, on trips she took for warehouse inspections, he has been building her a house on an island in Puget Sound, with the living room windows facing the sunset because she mentioned once, in 1995, that she loved them. On Thanksgiving night he puts the key on the table. She asks for a divorce.Two words on Instagram make her a meme overnight. So Nina goes home to Seattle, to her late mother's walk-up and a 2019 calendar still hanging in the kitchen, and to an old college classmate who works the drawbridges at night.A wry, tender novel about the woman with all the answers learning the question she never asked herself.