TY - BOOK AU - Essbaum,Jill Alexander TI - Hausfrau: a novel SN - 9780812997538 (hardcover : acidfree paper) AV - PS3555.S66 H38 2015 U1 - 813/.54 23 PY - 2015///] CY - New York PB - Random House KW - Married women KW - Fiction KW - Adultery KW - Self-realization in women KW - FICTION / Literary KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Contemporary Women KW - FICTION / Psychological KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft KW - Psychological fiction N2 - "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"-- ER -