Games to Play After Dark

When Kate meets Colin at a terrible party in Manhattan’s West Village she is young and fearless. Amid the chaos, as strangers make drinks and the sink threatens to overfl ow, Kate sees that Colin will fall in love with her if she lets him.

Their connection is electric and they marry quickly, moving to a house in the suburbs. But through childbirth and parenthood, family dinners and bedtime stories, Kate fi nds herself tumbling toward the dark edges of domesticity with the knowledge that she will ruin everything. A gorgeous, tender, disquieting look at a marriage, Sarah Gardner Borden’s fi rst novel introduces a brave new voice, crackling with raw emotion and intelligence.