Published: 1996, Simon and Schuster Genre: Fiction Themes: America, marriage, fidelity, crime My rating (out of 5): ❤❤❤ Douglas Kennedy is the writer who gave us The Pursuit of Happiness, and I had high hopes for this novel, but I don't think it works as well. It is the story of a marriage told from the perspective of Hannah Buchan, who we meet as a girl in college, and the story runs up to the present day when she has reached her sixties and has both children and grandchildren. Hannah grew up in the shadow of her father who made a name for himself as the first professor at the University of Vermont to speak out against the war in Vietnam. Her friends thought this was cool, but Hannah found his reputation put pressure on her to have her own radical streak, but instead she becomes as conformist as possible. Her mother is a difficult woman, who is blunt to the point of rudeness, and most of the time the family works around her mood swings as carefully as they can, but f...