After thirty-eight years of marriage, Eleanor Anderson's illusion of an idyllic life and marriage crashes into reality after she wakes up and finds her husband dead from a heart attack. It is after the funeral that she learns and acknowledges that her husband had never really been her own. Told in alternating first person perspective between the legal and the illegal wife--Claire Anderson, a thirty-something psychology professor at a prestigious university-- The Other Wife (2015) by best-selling Amazon writer Kathleen Irene Paterka is a perfectly good story about love, loss, betrayal, and starting over. A solid writer, Paterka's writing, per se, is not a problem. The biggest issue with this book is that it suffers from a lack of editing. At 387 pages, The Other Wife is unnecessarily long. Many ideas connected to the wives' histories with the dead husband and their growing sense of their identity are repeated multiple times. Style-wise, the story is developed so mu...
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