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The Three of Us
The Three of Us
The Three of Us
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The Three of Us

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Best Book of the Year
Time • Real Simple • Oprah Daily

A Belletrist Book Club Pick

"As short and sharp as a pairing knife . . . Moves along so briskly and with such sly wit . . . Deliciously wicked." —Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Long-standing tensions between a husband, his wife, and her best friend finally come to a breaking point in this sharp domestic comedy of manners, told brilliantly over the course of one day.


What if your two favorite people hated each other with a passion?

The wife has it all. A big house in a nice neighborhood, a ride-or-die snarky best friend, Temi, with whom to laugh about facile men, and a devoted husband who loves her above all else—even his distaste for Temi.

On a seemingly normal day, Temi comes over to spend a lazy afternoon with the wife: drinking wine, eating snacks, and laughing caustically about the husband's shortcomings. But when the husband comes home and a series of confessions are made, the wife's two confidants are suddenly forced to jockey for their positions, throwing everyone's integrity into question—and their long-drawn-out territorial dance, carefully constructed over years, into utter chaos. 

Told in three taut, mesmerizing parts—the wife, the husband, the best friend—over the course of one day, The Three of Us is a subversively comical, wildly astute, and painfully compulsive triptych of domestic life that explores cultural truths, what it means to defy them, and the fine line between compromise and betrayal when it comes to ourselves and the people we're meant to love.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPenguin Audio
Release dateMay 16, 2023
ISBN9780593672167

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  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Repetitive story told in three perspectives. And when I thought it might get good, it stopped.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Not sure why this was on my to read list. I disliked the characters so much and I couldn't move beyond that. They were spoiled, immature and unsympathetic.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Excellent character study, but it reminded me too much of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for me to enjoy it.