Somers’s suburban realism is sharp enough to cut glass, with more humor on a single page than most entire novels could ever hope to contain. Here, the marriage plot is replaced by the adultery plot, so innovatively executed that it results in two equally gripping storylines. Not since “Choose Your Own Adventure” has the reader been able to have it both ways! At its heart, this is a book about desire, refreshingly unmoralizing and dauntless at uncovering its sad and funny peculiarities. Smart, sexy, and ferociously readable.
The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers, (List Price: $28, Simon & Schuster, 9781668081440, October 2025)
Reviewed by Kristen Iskandrian, Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama