The Last Winter

Paul has been married to Marian for twenty-six years when he meets Rebecca in a Portland café - and falls in love with her slowly, honestly, in the way that is somehow worse than an affair born of carelessness. Then Marian is diagnosed with a brain tumor, and the clean lines of leaving get impossibly complicated. The Last Winter follows one family through the year that undoes and remakes them - a husband trying to be honest and kind at the same time, a wife who refuses to be either a villain or a saint on her way out, and two grown children learning that their parents are people first.
It is a novel about the particular grief of loving more than one person, about what a marriage owes its ending, and about the ordinary, unglamorous work of continuing. "Be a man who continues."