A review by boxofdelights
Duplicate Keys by Jane Smiley
3.0
This book presents itself as a mystery or thriller, and it does have some of the trappings of those genres, but it is mostly about friendship: how much you can love someone, and how little you can understand them.
"[C}ouldn't this last for years, in a way that marriage could never last, without effort, without swings in desire, or mistakes in translation, or the balancing of needs that marriages always demanded? People stayed home for passion and went out for companionship, when actually the reverse would work much better."
"[C}ouldn't this last for years, in a way that marriage could never last, without effort, without swings in desire, or mistakes in translation, or the balancing of needs that marriages always demanded? People stayed home for passion and went out for companionship, when actually the reverse would work much better."