Institut Ramon LLull

Remei Duran is in her early fifties, runs sixty kilometers a week, still considers herself a well-hydrated, attractive mature woman, and she’s never been more sought after as an illustrator. Imagine how her world begins to collapse when one afternoon she is struck by the vivid certainty that her beloved husband of fifteen years (and ten years her junior) will fall in love with his new stand partner in the orchestra, even before he is aware of it himself.

Empar Moliner brings her engaging, intimate prose to this gut-wrenchingly honest—and at times gut-wrenchingly funny—first-person interior monologue that wavers between resignation and desperation in the present as Remei comes to terms with what she sees as inevitable. Then she reflects on the past while jogging with her group of friends, and readers are privy to her compulsive, unfiltered take on marriage, exes, motherhood, mature sex, menopause, and the aging of a female artist.