The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller
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Two very different women, who would probably not become friends under “normal circumstances”, find themselves sharing a duplex. It is a very high-end duplex - but one can never escape the reality that there is someone living just on the other side of the common wall. This has been the Naughton’s home for almost all of the nearly 50 years they have been married. Their three children are adults, and Tom and Delia have “lived apart” (though never divorced) for a very long time, but somehow Delia cannot bring herself to completely let go of the place she thinks of as “home.” Nathan and Meri are newlyweds, and this is their first “house”. It’s a little out of their price range, but once Nathan learns that the Senator he has long admired would be their immediate neighbor (and it would be a terrific investment, after all) - they find a way to nake it work. As Meri’s first pregnancy progresses, she feels that she is somehow losing her self identity. Delia senses that Meri wants (even needs) something from her - but she’s not sure she has the generosity of spirit to provide whatever it is Meri seems to require.Â