Hug Dancing

Cile Tait is married to a staid and rigid Presbyterian minister. Although not sure of her beliefs, Cile attempts to be a good wife and to serve her husband and the church. When she comes across her old high school boyfriend Andy, they begin an affair and eventually plan to divorce their respective spouses and marry one another. In some ways, the announcement is ridiculously (and somewhat unrealistically) easy. None of their four kids seems to have a problem with their parents' marriages breaking up and the congregation waves Cile a world-weary goodbye without any of the recriminations which one might expect. In other ways, the breakup seems to cause problems as far as Andy's farmland and Cile's independence is concerned. The book has a lot of flashbacks which are sometimes hard to distinguish from the current action. The book is saved by the wry commentaries on life in small-town Texas and on the greed which seems to be at the center of so many events of the 90's.