Split-Level by Sande Bortiz Berger
Thanks to Olivia Brothers of JKS Communications, I am giving away one print copy of ‘Split-Level’ by Sande Bortiz Berger.
Description Split-Level by Sande Bortiz Berger
In Split-Level, set as the nation recoils from Nixon, Alex Pearl is about to commit the first major transgression of her life. But why shouldn’t she remain an officially contented, soon-to-turn-thirty wife? She’s got a lovely home in an upscale Jersey suburb, two precocious daughters, and a charming husband, Donny. But Alex can no longer deny she craves more—some infusion of passion into the cul-de-sac world she inhabits.
After she receives a phone call from her babysitter’s mother reporting that Donny took the teen for a midnight ride, promising he’d teach her how to drive, Alex insists they attend Marriage Mountain, the quintessential 1970s “healing couples sanctuary.” Donny accedes—but soon becomes obsessed with the manifesto A Different Proposition and its vision of how multiple couples can live together in spouse-swapping bliss. At first Alex scoffs, but soon she gives Donny much more than he bargained for. After he targets the perfect couple to collude in his fantasy, Alex discovers her desire for love escalating to new heights—along with a willingness to risk everything. Split-Levelevokes a pivotal moment in the story of American matrimony, a time when it seemed as if an open marriage might open hearts as well.
Praise Split-Level by Sande Bortiz Berger
“How impressive Split-Level is: wonderfully rich with details, fluent and fluid, with an inevitable-yet-unexpected ending, inspired throughout is its portrait of a woman whose essential life is an unconscious double-ness/split-ness.”―Joyce Carol Oates, author of We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde
“Ah, the 1970s. Miniskirts. Suburbia. Tie-dye and the freewheeling era of the so-called open marriage. Boritz Berger’s sly, smart second novel, written in prose as glorious as the era’s iconic tequila sunrise, gives us an on-the-verge-of-an-adventure heroine who comes to realize that sometimes having the life you desperately need means giving up the life you desperately want.”―Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of Pictures of You and Is This Tomorrow
“Sande Boritz Berger sets a 1970s Jersey housewife on a provocative collision course in Split-Level, a sharp portrait of female empowerment. Through sensitive insights, a woman finds an honest version of herself after realizing that her ideas on the nuclear family have made her erase vital parts of her identity.”―Foreward Reviews
About Sande Bortiz Berger
Sande Boritz Berger was a scriptwriter and video producer for Fortune 500 companies. She holds her MFA in writing and literature from Stony Brook Southampton College, where she was awarded the Deborah Hecht Memorial prize for fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Epiphany, Tri-Quarterly, Confrontation, and The Southampton Review, as well as several anthologies. She has written for the Huffington Post, Salon, and Psychology Today. Her debut novel, The Sweetness, was a Foreword Reviews IndieFab finalist for Book of the Year and was nominated for the Sophie Brody award from the ALA. Berger and her husband live in NYC and often escape to the quiet of Bridgehampton.
Website: https://www.sandeboritzberger.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ezwriter25
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sandeboritzberger
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Sounds like an interesting look at a marriage in trouble,
This book would be a great read for me as I lived through the 70s as a young adult. A time when families went through separation and eventual divorce. I would be most interested in reading. Thanks for the chance.
Might be interesting, but I think I might pass on this ons.
Captivating novel which interests me greatly.