Daisy and Henry have been married for 20 years, and for all that time they have served as host families for international students coming to study at Harvard. So Daisy should have seen it coming when Henry dumps her for the extremely French Giselle.
Mameve Medwed is an American novelist. She is the author of Mail, Host Family, The End of an Error, How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life, and Of Men and Their Mothers. Born and raised in Bangor, Maine, Medwed received her B.A. with honors from Simmons College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
