Consent

From the acclaimed novelist (A virtuosoDonna Seaman, Booklist), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by todays moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a singular passion in the 21st-century aftermath of #MeToo.

Few writers can tackle the bedroomor female libido . . . but Ciment is a master: in exquisitely spare prose, she nails it. The New York Times

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, which began in the 1970s, when she was a teenager and he was married with two children, Ciment not only reflects on how their love ignited (who leaned in first for that kiss?) but interrogates her 1996 memoir on the subject, Half a Life. She asks herself if she told the whole truth back then, and what truth looked like to her in the ev