Wellness

Jack and Elizabeth fall in love as young artists in 1990s Chicago, drawn together as much by their shared damage as by desire. Two decades later, married with a child and a stalled home renovation, they're locked in a quieter kind of crisis — Elizabeth running a wellness startup while confronting her father's abuse, Jack chasing the authenticity he thought art once promised him. Nathan Hill's second novel follows one marriage across thirty years to ask what, if anything, actually keeps a long partnership together in a culture obsessed with constant self-improvement.