The Slippage is a wry, wistful tale of marriage, lust, and disconnection from Ben Greenman, the critically acclaimed author of What He's Poised to Do.
William Day must confront some uncomfortable truths about his life and his future when his wife Louisa asks him to build her house. The take-it-or-leave-it demand becomes all the more difficult to swallow when he finds himself grappling with a past recklessness, an ex-girlfirend's son he considers his own, and his own wants for what lies ahead.
Sure to appeal to everyone who has ever been in love and had their heart broken, The Slippage shares uncanny truths about intimacy and modern relationships.
Review
In The Slippage, Ben Greenman illuminates the strange, electric moments that lurk in the seemingly ordinary milieus of the suburban kitchen, the married bedroom. With compassion and dark humor, Greenman brings the absurdity and grace of marriage vividly to life. (Laura van den Berg, author of *What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us* )
Ben Greenman's The Slippage is a slyly funny and heartbreaking portrait of suburban American marriage, like an update of John Cheever in an age of smartphones and rampant corporate greed. This stellar novel asks whether it's ever possible to see clearly-in love, life, or art. (Luis Jaramillo, author of *The Doctor's Wife* )
With The Slippage, Ben Greenman proves what many of us suspected: he's one of our best writers, and he can do anything...It'll be the book of the year. (Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life and *Chang & Eng* )
Ben Greenman's relentlessly funny novel engages with the mystery whereby a seemingly sane man can take steps to simultaneously solidify and destroy his life. Greenman is a brilliant and wry stenographer. (Karen Russell, author of *Swamplandia* )
Reminiscent of the greatest, elegiac work of William Maxwell, Greenman's book is a reminder of the ways we fail, in love, and find grace in even that failure. This is truly a beautiful book. (Pauls Toutonghi, author of Evel Knievel Days and *Red Weather* )
Ben Greenman's The Slippage turns backyard barbecues and suburban playgrounds into tense and charged territory. . . . If Emma Bovary had lived in the ?