Sandra Tsing Loh I have just gotten off the phone with my friend and magazine editor, Ben. We have been talking about refinancing . . . It helps me to recall . . . the staid, rational person I was not too long ago: which is to say before I, a forty-something suburban mother, became involved in a wild and ill-considered extramarital affair. —Opening, The Madwoman in the Volvo, 2014

