Erin Somers Explores Modern Marriage in The Ten Year Affair

Erin Somers examines the frustrations of modern motherhood and stagnant marriage in her satirical novel "The Ten Year Affair".The story follows Cora, a Brooklynite who moves upstate and spends a decade overthinking a potential affair with a mortgage start-up executive named Sam.Somers, who has shared personal stories of resilience after public harassment, uses the book to critique the rigid morality of contemporary New York society.