Devotion by Howard Norman

A spare, confessional narrative told as a letter to a mother-in-law, in which a husband tries to explain the jealous impulse that drove him to commit a sudden act of violence against his wife’s former lover. As he awaits the consequences, he unravels the fraught history of their relationship, probing the thin line between love and obsession and the irrevocable damage a single moment can inflict on a marriage and a family.

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