The Bridges of Madison County
Robert James Waller • 1992
Devastation Rating
love loss literary fiction
Our Take
Four days in Iowa between a photographer and a farm wife. Waller writes the affair with such aching restraint that the decision not to leave becomes the most devastating choice in the book. The bridge is real. The loss is permanent. The kitchen table is where love goes to die quietly.
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