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"Marriage is like a rain forest," Vicki Covington writes in
Cleaving. "The story of a marriage contains all that grows in the
canopy, all that is visible from an aerial, or public, view. The
understory of a marriage is the place where . . . we struggle,
fight, and conceive. It's the place where compost is made, where
anything can grow, including forgiveness." Told in the authors'
alternating voices, Cleaving is both the story and the understory
of a marriage.
Childhood acquaintances, Vicki and Dennis meet again in their
twenties and wed. they "promise each other nothing" and get more
than they'd bargained for: alcoholism, infidelity, infertility,
uncertainty. tumult gives way to sobriety, parenthood, and
meaningful work, but a yearning remains. In a quest to root
themselves in the larger world, they embark on a mission to dig
water wells in Central America, assuaging a spiritual thirst by
addressing a practical need. Yet even this is part of the story-the
visible, overarching canopy-of the marriage. The understory-and the
triumph of this haunting book, which is neither sentimental nor
cynical-is its portrayal of the eddying of passion through the
institution that enshrines but cannot contain it.
A soulful and unsparing portrait of the forces that threaten-and
sustain-a relationship over time.
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