Sarah Dunn

The Arrangement Sarah Dunn

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. Theyve got a two hundred year-old house, an autistic son obsessed with the Titanic, and seventeen chickens, at last count. Its the kind of paradise where stay-at-home moms team up to cook the schools “hot lunch,†dads grill grass-fed burgers, and, as Lucy observes, “chopping kale has become a certain kind of American housewifes version of chopping wood. â€When friends at a wine-soaked dinner party reveal theyve made their marriage open, sensible Lucy balks. Theres a part of her, though—the part that worries shes become too comfortable being invisible—thats 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 shes known for the past nine years, Lucy must decide what truly makes her happy—“real life,†or the “experiment?â€