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"Cleaving is a wondrous love story. It speaks of the terness and dangers of eros as well as any book I have read, but it is the book's burning spirituality that stays with you." --Pat Conroy
"This marriage can be seen as a nest of contradictions: sacred and profane; sterile and fertile; faithful and marked by betrayal . . . As a love story this is both disturbing and exhilarating, but it leaves the reader wanting to sp more time with these very honest and vital people." --Booklist, Starred Review
"This raw, emotional memoir of a 20-year marriage is unforgettable . . . Highly recommed." --Library Journal, starred review
"Marriage is like a rain forest," Vicki Covington writes in Cleaving. "The story of a marriage contains all that grows in the canopy, all that is visible from an aerial, or public, view. The understory of a marriage is the place where . . . we struggle, fight, and conceive. It's the place where compost is made, where anything can grow, including forgiveness." Told in the authors' alternating voices, Cleaving is both the story and the understory of a marriage.
Childhood acquaintances, Vicki and Dennis meet again in their twenties and wed. they "promise each other nothing" and get more than they'd bargained for: alcoholism, infidelity, infertility, uncertainty. tumult gives way to sobriety, parenthood, and meaningful work, but a yearning remains. In a quest to root themselves in the larger world, they embark on a mission to dig water wells in Central America, assuaging a spiritual thirst by addressing a practical need. Yet even this is part of the story-the visible, overarching canopy-of the marriage. The understory-and the triumph of this haunting book, which is neither sentimental nor cynical-is its portrayal of the eddying of passion through the institution that enshrines but cannot contain it.
A soulful and unsparing portrait of the forces that threaten-and sustain-a relationship over time.
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