NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR'Taut, elegant. Black is a writer of great wisdom.'-Claire Messud, The Guardian (UK)Augusta Edelman-Gus to her friends-is a painter, a wife, and not always the best judge of her own choices-one of them bad enough that she and her husband, Owen, have fled their longtime city home and its reminders of troubling events. Now, three years into their secluded country life, Gus works daily on the marriage she nearly lost, discovers new inspiration for