title: Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever: A Novel
author:  Judith Marshall 
description: "Arich,funny, deeply-feltstory of sisterhood, loyalty, and the humanheart."--Frank Baldwin, author of the novels Balling the Jack and Jake&amp;Mimi<span></span><br /><br />"The women inJudith Marshall's book are memorable... reminding us that friendship, thoughfragile at times, can withstand calamities, especially the ones we create forourselves."--Teresa LeYung Ryan, author of Love Made of Heart
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  Imagine that your husband has two other wives.
  
  
  You’ve never met the other wives. None of you know each other, and because of
  this unconventional arrangement, you can see your husband only one day a week.
  But you love him so much you don’t care. Or at least that’s what you’ve told
  yourself.
  
  
  But one day, while you’re doing laundry, you find a scrap of paper in his
  pocket—an appointment reminder for a woman named Hannah, and you just know
  it’s another of the wives.
  
  
  You thought you were fine with your arrangement, but you can’t help yourself:
  you track her down, and, under false pretenses, you strike up a friendship.
  Hannah has no idea who you really are. Then Hannah starts showing up to your
  coffee dates with telltale bruises, and you realize she’s being abused by her
  husband. Who, of course, is also _your_ husband. But you’ve never known him to
  be violent, ever.
  
  
  Who exactly is your husband, and how far would you g