Blog Tour & Giveaway: Split-Level by Sande Boritz

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Denise Alicea

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In Sande Boritz Berger’s second novel, SplitLevel, set as the nation recoils from Richard Nixon, Alex Pearl is about to commit the first major transgression of her life. But why shouldn’t she remain a good, officially contented, soon-to-turn-30 wife? She’s got a lovely home in an upscale New Jersey suburb, two precocious daughters, and a charming husband, Donny, the scion of his family’s century-old lingerie business. But Alex, a painter making tie-dyed T-shirts instead of canvases who let the ‘60s sexual revolution happen without her, can no longer deny she craves more ─ some infusion of passion into her cul-de-sac world. When she receives a phone call from her babysitter’s mother informing her that Donny took the teen for a midnight ride–promising he’d teach her how to drive–Alex realizes she just might have married Peter Pan─ an insight that renders her vulnerable, frustrated, and primed for something more.

When Donny accedes to Alex’s urging that they visit Marriage Mountain, the quintessential 1970s “healing couples’ sanctuary,” where they must refrain from sex and write to each other in speckled notebooks, he becomes obsessed with the manifesto A Different Proposition and its vision of how multiple couples can live together in spouse-swapping bliss. Alex scoffs, while Donny plays on her compulsion to keep their family unit intact–no matter how desperate her longings. But soon Alex gives Donny much more than he bargained for. After he targets the perfect couple to collude in his fantasy, Alex discovers her desire for love escalating to new heights–along with a willingness to risk everything.  Split-Level evokes a pivotal moment in the story of American matrimony, when it seemed as if an open marriage might open hearts as well.

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mICHELLE l 06/20/2019 - 10:55 am

Thank you for the chance.

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