Wired: A Portrait of a Marriage
A marriage built on love. Thinned by exhaustion. Reshaped by a need neither of them could ignore.
A quiet novella for readers who are drawn to emotional honesty, interior landscapes, and the private longings beneath ordinary things.
Told through two confessions—Howard’s of unraveling, Alice’s of wanting something she’s not supposed to— Wired: A Portrait of a Marriage traces the slow unspooling and quiet reconfiguration of a modern marriage from both sides of the break.
Howard has always believed in achievement. But when his career implodes, so does the life he’s built. At home, he watches, helpless, as Alice begins to shift in ways he can’t name, much less control.
Alice used to believe in whimsy. These days, she believes in logistics. But when a sketchbook reawakens something inside her—and the attention of another man cracks her composure—she begins to question whether holding everything together is the same as being whole.
This is a raw, darkly funny portrait of emotional drift, unmet longing, and the quiet rituals we invent to survive the people we used to be. A novel of burnout, love, and the delicate wires we sometimes have to cut—or rewire—to come alive again.
For readers of Dept. of Speculation, The Wife, and Love and Trouble.
Especially resonant for INFP, INFJ, INTP, ENFP, and ISFP types—and all others drawn to nuance, interiority, and emotional truth over plot or action.
Not for readers who crave fast-paced drama or high-stakes twists.
No car chases. No dramatic shocks. No tidy redemption arcs. Just the slow, intimate collapse of a marriage—and the ache of something more honest, waiting to emerge.
