Isabel Fonseca

Isabel Fonseca on her first novel, Attachment, a story that reaches from the Indian Ocean to London to New York. About a woman's midlife crisis on an island in the Indian Ocean, the book is an unflinching depiction of desire, of the responsibility that comes with age and family, ...

In the novel, Attachment, a wife assumes her husband’s identity and begins an email correspondence with his lover. Kurt asks Isabel Fonseca what it’s like to write about infidelity when she’s in a happy marriage -- and about her own experience as the “other woman” ...

Laurie Metcalf reads more from Isabel Fonseca's Attachment.