Essbaum, Jill Alexander.

Hausfrau : a novel / Jill Alexander Essbaum. - First edition. - 324 pages ; 22 cm

"Anna Benz, an American woman in her thirties, lives in comfort and affluence with her Swiss banker husband and their three young children in a picture-perfect suburb of Zurich. Despite the tranquility and order of her domestic existence, Anna is falling apart inside. Isolated in a foreign country and a faltering marriage, Anna begins three adventures to restart her life: Jungian analysis, German language classes, and a series of extramarital affairs whose consequences she cannot foretell. Hausfrau is a daring novel about marriage, fidelity, morality, and most especially, self: how we create ourselves and how we lose our selves and the sometimes disastrous choices we make to find ourselves"--

9780812997538 (hardcover : acidfree paper) 9780812987294 (paperback)

2014026118


Married women--Fiction.
Adultery--Fiction.
Self-realization in women--Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Contemporary Women.
FICTION / Psychological.


Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.

PS3555.S66 / H38 2015

813/.54