Small Acts of Sex and Electricity - Hardcover

Beauty and privilege, a charming, handsome husband and two promising young

daughters, money, a beach house on the Pacific—Jane has everything that Mattie

thinks she wants. But Jane always works to damage what she’s given. Mattie

knows that better than anyone.

But even she is caught off-guard when Jane leaves her whole life behind one broken

morning before dawn. And it will take Mattie awhile to see that, by driving

away, Jane has forced open the questions that have always hung in the air

between them—the ones that are hardest to answer—questions about desire and

envy and integrity. These are the issues of the heart that reveal themselves, not

through the bold and dramatic gestures of a woman like Jane, but in even the

briefest moments and the smallest of acts.

With the same rich language and keen, compassionate eye that