TY - BOOK AU - Lansens,Lori TI - The wife's tale: a novel SN - 0316069310 PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - Little, Brown and Co. KW - Self-actualization (Psychology) in women KW - Fiction KW - Wives N1 - Originally published in Canada by Knopf, 2009 N2 - On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy to come home. As night turns to day, it becomes frighteningly clear to Mary that he is gone. Through the years, disappointment and worry have brought Mary's life to a standstill, and she has let her universe shrink to the well-worn path from the bedroom to the refrigerator. But her husband's disappearance startles her out of her inertia, and she begins a desperate search ER -