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The Arrangement
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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Publisher's Summary
National best seller: A hilarious and emotionally charged novel about a couple who embark on an open marriage-what could possibly go wrong?
Lucy and Owen, ambitious, thoroughly-therapized New Yorkers, have taken the plunge, trading in their crazy life in a cramped apartment for Beekman, a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb. They've got a 200-year-old house, an autistic son obsessed with the Titanic, and 17 chickens, at last count. It's the kind of paradise where stay-at-home moms team up to cook the school's "hot lunch", dads grill grass-fed burgers, and, as Lucy observes, "chopping kale has become a certain kind of American housewife's version of chopping wood".
When friends at a wine-soaked dinner party reveal they've made their marriage open, sensible Lucy balks. There's a part of her, though-the part that worries she's become too comfortable being invisible - that's intrigued. Why not try a short marital experiment? Six months, clear ground rules, zero questions asked. When an affair with a man in the city begins to seem more enticing than the happily-ever-after she's known for the past nine years, Lucy must decide what truly makes her happy: "Real life", or the "experiment"?
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- Anonymous User
- 2017-11-08
An interesting look at an alternative marriage
The story takes you on a roller coaster through navigating love and marriage. The story was well written and the narrator did a great job. There were a couple of "glitches" in the editing that were missed, but overall a good production.
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- Iryna M
- 2021-04-27
Enjoyed it!
Really enjoyed this story and couldn’t wait to listen to the next part, definitely gives you something to ponder on at the end.
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- Tasty Sunshine
- 2019-05-05
A bad arrangement by a loving couple
An excellent view at what not to do in a relatively happy marriage. I wish the author had written more to explain why they agreed to the arrangement. Why they wanted to open up their marriage and why they didn't foresee the risk to the family.
Excellent voices by the narrator.
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