The Archaeology of a Marriage
Thera, by Zeruya Shalev, tells a rich and nuanced story of the marital pain of two couples as they separate, deal with loss and cataclysmic change, and try to re-organize their lives. Shalev puts the reader in the hearts and heads of her characters. Although it is a long book, the writing is spare, descriptive and intense. The main character is an archaelogist who applies her historical/scientific eye to her own experience, as she tries to put together her own past with her present and future.