He's Gone
“What do you think happened to your husband, Mrs. Keller?”
The Sunday morning starts like any other, aside from the slight hangover. Dani Keller wakes up on her Seattle houseboat, a headache building behind her eyes from the wine she drank at a party the night before. But on this particular Sunday morning, she’s surprised to see that her husband, Ian, is not home. As the hours pass, Dani fills her day with small things. But still, Ian does not return. Irritation shifts to worry, worry slides almost imperceptibly into panic. And then, like a relentless blackness, the terrible realization hits Dani: He’s gone.
As the police work methodically through all the logical explanations—he’s hurt, he’s run off, he’s been killed—Dani searches frantically for a clue as to whether Ian is in fact dead or alive. And, slowly, she unpacks their relationship, holding each moment up to the light: from its intense, adulterous beginning, to the grandeur of their new love, to the difficulties of forever. She examines all the sins she can—and cannot—remember. As the days pass, Dani will plumb the depths of her conscience, turning over and revealing the darkest of her secrets in order to discover the hard truth—about herself, her husband, and their lives together.
MY REVIEW: What would you do if your spouse disappeared without a trace? You wake up one Sunday morning and he is already gone, and you assume he will soon return with breakfast. As the day progresses, he does not appear, and your phone calls to him go unanswered. You were the last person to speak with him before he went missing, but your memory of the previous night is somewhat muddled due to consumption of alcohol and pills. The two of you went to a party, and you both drank too much. There was an argument, and you don't remember if your husband ever came to bed. Such is the set up for "He's Gone", author Deb Caletti's psychological portrait of a troubled marriage which takes a shocking, mysterious turn. Dani and Ian Keller first met when they were married to other people. A passionate affair between destroyed their two first marriages and has lasting, varied adverse effects on the lives of the members of both families. Dani's first husband, Mark, was abusive and controlling. Ian is a perfectionist with expensive tastes, and marriage to him is not what Dani expected. Her first marriage was an escape from her childhood, and the second marriage was an escape from the first, and neither relationship fully worked. Now, Ian is nowhere to be found, and as time passes, Dani looks more and more like a suspect. Throughout the whole story, Dani is analyzing herself and those around her, torturing herself in daylight and in her dreams. When Ian's whereabouts are finally revealed, the reader is once again reminded that the truth hits hardest when it hits close to home.
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