{"product_id":"cleaving-dennis-covington-9780865475892","title":"Cleaving","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Marriage is like a rain forest,\" Vicki Covington writes in Cleaving. \"The story of a marriage contains all that grows in the canopy, all that is visible from an aerial, or public, view. The understory of a marriage is the place where . . . we struggle, fight, and conceive. It's the place where compost is made, where anything can grow, including forgiveness.\" Told in the authors' alternating voices, Cleaving is both the story and the understory of a marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChildhood acquaintances, Vicki and Dennis meet again in their twenties and wed. they \"promise each other nothing\" and get more than they'd bargained for: alcoholism, infidelity, infertility, uncertainty. tumult gives way to sobriety, parenthood, and meaningful work, but a yearning remains. In a quest to root themselves in the larger world, they embark on a mission to dig water wells in Central America, assuaging a spiritual thirst by addressing a practical need. Yet even this is part of the story-the visible, overarching canopy-of the marriage. The understory-and the triumph of this haunting book, which is neither sentimental nor cynical-is its portrayal of the eddying of passion through the institution that enshrines but cannot contain it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA soulful and unsparing portrait of the forces that threaten-and sustain-a relationship over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dennis Covington, Vicki Covington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 086547589X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865475892\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/08\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.89h x 5.07w x 0.62d","brand":"Dennis Covington","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120400822527,"sku":"9780865475892","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2404541a-cd1d-46ee-bb20-c691def2b76c.jpg?v=1687414110","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cleaving-dennis-covington-9780865475892","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}