When I got home, I did what I had stopped myself from doing earlier. I
Googled the name: Aimee Laroche. I wondered what I would have done if I
had found myself embroiled in this scenario fifteen, even ten years ago.
Would I have hired a private detective to track this woman down? Would I
have passed sleepless nights waiting for him to hand over a manila
envelope containing long lens black-and-whites of a femme fatale smoking
Gauloises at a sidewalk café? Probably not. But Googling was
irresistible. Like everything on screen, it required no effort. It was
so easy.
Maura Fielder looks like she has the perfect life: every expectation
fulfilled. But under the illusory surface of perfection, Maura finds
herself blindsided by what she discovers on her husband's computer. She
has no emotional cubby hole into which she can shove this ghost from her
husband's past, so instead, Maura upends her life--thrashing her
marriage, alienating her daughter, and eroding her own moral center. On
the verge of sacrificing everything she holds dear to her own obsession,
how does Maura manage to regain her equilibrium and reclaim her life?
In this post-privacy new world, any woman can find heartache if she
searches hard enough.
