Description:
Tension mounts as a woman torn between her husband and her lover risks offending everyone in her conservative immigrant community if she chooses to leave her husband.
Review Quotes:
"This first-person narrative traces the story of a married Romanian immigrant woman who soon discovers that she has been far more profoundly uprooted than she expected. As she succumbs to the charms of another immigrant and dances between husband and lover, her experience casts new light on matters of the heart in the throes of migration." --Julie Roy, 5 October 2022
"Food, sex, Romanian immigrants and Montreal: Felicia Mihali's The Bigamist transforms the immigrant novel into a vigorous exploration of one writer's complicated passion for two diametrically opposite men, one of whom is her husband. Determined to follow her heart's desire in a cosmopolitan city, despite her community's real or feigned moral outrage, the narrator tells a tale of contradictory passions, and traditional values conflicting with contemporary facts. Deftly and cleanly translated by Linda Leith, The Bigamist is brief, bold, funny and profound." --Kenneth Radu, author of Net Worth