The story of a million years

the long version

"The Story of a Million Years traces the astonishing, reverberating life of a secret. The story begins with Marcy, who at age fifteen has an affair with the husband of her mother's best friend. Years later, the emotional fallout from the hidden affair still echoes in unexpected ways through the lives of the people closest to Marcy: her husband and the couple who have remained their friends since high school. A multilayered tale unfolds through their eyes, in which each character mines the past for some evidence of goodness."--BOOK JACKET. "Each of these convincing voices asks the questions central to all our lives: What stories are so important that you'd never reveal them to another person in a million years? How do secrets come to define us, for better or for worse?"--BOOK JACKET.