My Wife's Last Lover, Martin Golan's first novel, is the moving and often funny tale of the psychosexual tension between men and women, the power struggle and longing for safety that converge in a modern-day marriage. It tells the story of Daniel Weil, a seemingly happy, successful man who loves his wife so deeply it verges on sexual obsession. Yet he walks out on her and their two small children, in part because her beauty and success bring up his own feelings of weakness and inadequacy.

With heartbreaking candor and bittersweet humor, Golan dramatizes the plight of being a man today, so different from what it was in the last generation. It also reveals how different it is to be a woman today, which Daniel does not truly understand until the book's devastating final scene.