He's Gone, A Novel by Deb Caletti

Book Summary:

The Sunday morning starts like any other, aside from the slight hangover. Dani Keller wakes up on her Seattle houseboat, a headache building behind her eyes from the wine she drank at a party the night before. But on this particular Sunday morning, she's surprised to see that her husband, Ian, is not home. As the hours pass, Dani fills her day with small things. But still, Ian does not return. Irritation shifts to worry, worry slides almost imperceptibly into panic. And then, like a relentless blackness, the terrible realization hits Dani: He's gone.

As the police work methodically through all the logical explanations--he's hurt, he's run off, he's been killed--Dani searches frantically for a clue as to whether Ian is in fact dead or alive. And, slowly, she unpacks their relationship, holding each moment up to the light: from its intense, adulterous beginning, to the grandeur of their new love, to the difficulties of forever. She examines all the sins she can--and cannot--remember. As the days pass, Dani will plumb the depths of her conscience, turning over and revealing the darkest of her secrets in order to discover the hard truth--about herself, her husband, and their lives together. 

I recently finished reading this book and have to say it was moving as well as thought provoking.  I wondered to myself if I were to wake up to an empty house, my husband having inexplicably vanished, what would I do?  What would I think?  Where would I go?  Who would I talk to?  How would I cope?  Dani Keller took me on a journey that I could relate to.  I can't say that I have or would make the same choices but hey, I'm walking in my own shoes, not another's.  

It's a good read that moves quickly, actually, the entire book is told within a ten day time span.  I wasn't sure what to expect when I reached the end and was certainly not disappointed.  Deb Caletti told her story with raw emotion, grit, dirt, and direct yet naked candor.  Though the story has concluded, it has taken root in my mind and I've had a tough time letting it go.